The Devil Has Slippery Shoes: A Biased Biography of the Child Development Group of Mississippi: A Story of Maximum Feasible Poor Parent Participatio

The Devil Has Slippery Shoes, written in the 1960s and reprinted here with new opening and ending material, and a new foreword by Sheldon H. White of Harvard University, is of inestimable value as an inspiration, blueprint, and mind-blowing insightful guide for today's professionals in Head Start and other programs for low-income young children and their families, as well as for faculty and students in early childhood education, social work and public health; grassroots projects specialists; and indeed all citizens who sincerely want to play an active part in helping our troubled country get at the root of its greatest domestic problem - its greatest shame - poverty. This glorious "story" has more drama, emotion, suspense, excitement, plot, fascinating analysis, sharp social commentary, and magnificent characters than most prize-winning novels. It can be read as * a seminal report on a successful model for the development of poor children and parents, * the ignored chapter in sixties Mississippi civil rights history when protest became program and black people were finally freed from a form of foinancial slavery, or * an enormously stirring personal document of inner and professional growth. Read this dramatic documentation of the next step in rapid social reform toward democratization of the old slave-holding South. This is the next chapter in a centuries' long story - when the life-risking protest of the 1950s and early 1960s became, in 1965, federally funded program - CDGM's unique HEADSTART - economically releasing black people from an entrenched peonage system, thus forging the link to the future. Slippery Shoes presents a major missing piece of 1960s Mississippi history. --- from publisher's notes