Episode 09: The Child Development Group of Mississippi and the Radical Potential of Head Start

On this episode of Visions of Democracy, we explore the peculiar histories of American welfare through the radical potential of Head Start. The Child Development Group of Mississippi was one of the first Head Start programs. As Dr. Crystal Sanders shares, CDGM offered a radical curriculum of empowerment to working-class Black students and well-paying jobs to many of their mothers. Transcript available at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19SMuOfQhsmvsVGYhXOsIIWn4TsWslsSc?usp=sharing Credits: Music- Wanna Go by INOSSI | @inossi Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Photo: (picture of Operation Head Start at Webb School on July 4, 1965) Photographer Thomas J. O'Halloran. From Library of Congress: https://lccn.loc.gov/2016647284