Mississippi CDGM: Head Start and Civil Rights, 1965–67

Learn about the Child Development
Group of Mississippi and its "biography,"
The Devil Has Slippery Shoes

THE DEVIL HAS SLIPPERY SHOES

A Biased Biography of the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM),
a Story of Maximum Feasible Poor Parent Participation (812 pages, paperback)
by Polly Greenberg

First published (712 pages) in 1969: Macmillan and Company, NY. Reissued in 1990 (paperback) with 100 new pages following up on CDGM and its ramifications: Youth Policy Institute, Washington, DC.

At the end of Mississippi's famous Freedom Summer (1964), civil rights leaders had no plans for keeping up the momentum it had generated among the poorest of the poor black Mississippians—and those throughout the nation who supported them. Fortunately and coincidentally, CDGM—the Child Development Group of Mississippi—was invented by three out-of-state people; it perfectly filled the need to move from protest to program. Therefore, via CDGM, Mississippi's civil rights movement peaked between 1965 and 1967.

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