VOICES: Elaine Weiss, The Underground Schools that built the Civil Rights Movement

The Underground Schools that built the Civil Rights Movement

Elaine Weiss is an award-winning journalist and narrative historian based in Baltimore. A Society of Professional Journalists prize-winner, her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, and Harper’s. She is the author of three acclaimed books: Spell Freedom (her latest work explores the underground schools of the Civil Rights Movement), The Woman’s Hour (a political thriller on the suffrage movement that won the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and was adapted for young readers) and Fruits of Victory (a history of the Woman’s Land Army featured in Smithsonian Magazine.)