Freedom Lessons from Eileen Sanchez, Episode 33

This week's featured story is Eileen Sanchez's novel Freedom Lessons.  Its timely themes of race, unity and education celebrate a 50 year anniversary this week. A US Supreme Court ruling on October 29, 1969, forced a change in the way public schools educated children. On that day, in Louisiana, as change led to conflict and upheaval, Eileen Sanchez was teaching 2nd graders in a segregated school. But, her personal experience is just part of the story.  Her novel Freedom Lessons brings multiple lenses to the Jim Crow South and invites you to see a history that still sparks conversation and feels relevant today.  Listen to a scene from the newly released audiobook with narrator April Doty. And, visit Eileen's website or find her in the Facebook Group Prose and the Pandemic to continue the conversation.  She's perennially ready to meet new people. https://www.eileensanchez.com/ --- Support this podcast: <a href="https://anchor.fm/theresa-bakken/support" rel="payment">https://anchor.fm/theresa-bakken/support</a>