Many white women worked in Freedom Schools established by SNCC, because of the danger they would have faced working in the field. Freedom schools were originally established to teach African American high school students lessons in history and other subjects, because the education they received from public schools was not very good. They originally had a curriculum, but it was hard to follow. SNCC volunteers were not teachers and did not know about every topic. One staff member said to the volunteers, “You’ll meet on someone’s lawn under a tree. You’ll tear up the curriculum and teach what you know.” Eventually, Freedom Schools babysat black children, taught adults how to read and filled the needs of the students. Sandra Adickes, a black