Undocumented Students Take Education Underground in Georgia

From http://www.npr.org/2012/10/28/163717277/undocumented-students-take-education-underground

Undocumented Students Take Education Underground
by Kathy Lohr
October 28, 2012

About 35 students meet every Sunday at an undisclosed location in Georgia to study. They are undocumented and banned from attending some of the most prestigious colleges in the state.

Georgia is one of three states to bar undocumented students from attending schools. But a group of professors at the University of Georgia has created a fledgling school to provide a place for students to learn.

They call it Freedom University, named after the schools set up during the civil rights era to teach African-Americans in the Deep South. University of Georgia history professor Pam Voekel is one of the volunteer instructors.

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