Freedom School

Freedom School

The Freedom School was located in Colorado, United States, offering a series of lectures by libertarian theorist Robert LeFevre from 1957 to 1968. LeFevre extended this work to the related Rampart College, an unaccredited four-year school, in 1963. Both shared the same campus. In 1965, a flood devastated the campus, and the school and college were moved to California, where they lasted until at least 1973. They were succeeded by the Rampart Institute.

The Freedom School was also the name of the fictional school for runaway youth depicted in the 1971 film "Billy Jack" and the 1974 sequel "The Trial of Billy Jack".

Freedom Schools were sometimes used for alternative schools set up by civil rights activists in the southern United States in opposition to the racial segregation in public schools which was mandated at the time by Jim Crow laws.


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