![]() They were intended to counter the “sharecropper education” received by so many African Americans and poor whites. The Freedom Schools of the 1960s were part of a long line of efforts to liberate people from oppression using the tool of political and language literacy, 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 in the 1950s.įreedom Schools were first developed by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Children | High School / Adult | Articles and Links Staughton Lynd talks to Freedom School teachers in Mississippi, 1964. ![]()
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