The organizations below have partnered with the San Francisco Freedom Summer School. The Bay Area Civil Rights Veterans have provided us with advice, most of the guest speakers for the summer program come from this organization, and Mike Miller's Organize! Training Center is our fiscal sponsor. The Liberation Curriculum provides teachers who participate in SFFS workshops and summer sessions with materials and advice who wish to include Civil Rights History in their curricula. United Educators of San Francisco has provided material support for SFFS designed professional development workshops. Zephyr Press provides us, at a discount, with copies of Letters from Mississippi(one of two texts we hand out to those participants of the summer program who want them).

Bay Area Civil Rights Movements Veterans, an organization of former civil rights workers who were active in the Southern Freedom Movement of the 1960s. We were staff and volunteers for CORE, SCLC, SNCC, NAACP and other organizations. In the years since, we've all gone our various ways but regardless of where we are now we consider the Movement to be one of the defining experiences of our lives. Members include: Betita Martinez, Willie B. Wazir Peacock, Mike Miller, Chude Pam Parker Allen, Phil Hutchings, Jean Wiley, Don Jelinek, Bruce Hartford, and Jimmy Rogers.

Liberation Curriculum at the King Institute, Stanford University. The Liberation Curriculum initiative provides teachers with educational materials that engage students in active learning and critical inquiry. The goal of the project is to create historically accurate and pedagogically effective curriculum that addresses issues of social justice, transformation, and reconciliation, while meeting state and national standards. The broad range of materials related to the African American freedom struggle, such as the King Encyclopedia and a database of 1,000 primary source documents, coupled with an online community, offer educators the support necessary to integrate the Liberation Curriculum into their teaching and transform the way young people learn about history.

United Educators of San Francisco. UESF is the collective voice of San Francisco Unified School District teachers and paraprofessionals, organized and professional educators committed to learning and to the bond between students and their teachers. As a union of professional educators, UESF has a responsibility to make an increasing effort to support successful education and seek remedies for unsuccessful educational efforts. UESF owes this responsibility to its members, its members' students and to the broader society.

Zephyr Press. Zephyr Press publishes literary titles that foster a deeper understanding of other cultures and languages, as well as our own. They focus on contemporary works in translation from Russia, Eastern Europe, and Asia, with occasional projects from other parts of the world. They also publish literature from the U.S., including the “Adventures in Poetry” series, and reprint books of literary and historical value that have long been out of print. They seek to be a bridge between cultures, and organize bilingual readings, translation workshops, and other educational and cross-cultural events to further that commitment

WE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SUPPORT OF THE FOLLOWING ORGANIZATION.

Teachers 4 Social Justice has helped us spread the word about SFFS, offering us a venue at their last Annual Conference, which is one of the best networking conferences for professional educators in the Bay Area -- next conference is October 14, 2006. See their website for more details.

T4SJ provides opportunities for self-transformation, leadership, and community building to educators in order to affect meaningful change in the classroom, school, community and society. T4SJ organizes teachers and community-based educators and implements programs and projects that develop empowering learning environments, more equitable access to resources and power, and realizing a just and caring culture.