The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression using the tool of popular education, including secret schools in the 18th and 19th centuries for enslaved Africans; labor schools during the early 20th century; and the Citizenship Schools formed by Septima Clark and others in the 1950s.
With the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court and many states, we need to teach with the Freedom School approach in our classrooms and communities. This lesson is from our publication, Putting the Movement Back Into Civil Rights Teaching.
HRE USA is a project of the Center for Transformative Action.
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