The
Freedom School was located in
ColoradoColorado is a U.S. state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. It may also be considered to be part of the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States. Colorado entered statehood in 1876 and was nicknamed the “Centennial State”...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, offering a series of lectures by libertarian theorist
Robert LeFevreRobert LeFevre was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality and primary theorist of autarchism.-Freedom School:In 1957, LeFevre founded the Freedom School, which he ran until 1973, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1965, after a flood devastated the campus, the school and college...
from 1957 to 1968. LeFevre extended this work to the related
Rampart CollegeRampart College was a libertarian educational institution established by Robert LeFevre in Colorado, United States.
, 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.
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The
Freedom School was located in
ColoradoColorado is a U.S. state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. It may also be considered to be part of the Western and Southwestern regions of the United States. Colorado entered statehood in 1876 and was nicknamed the “Centennial State”...
,
United StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
, offering a series of lectures by libertarian theorist
Robert LeFevreRobert LeFevre was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality and primary theorist of autarchism.-Freedom School:In 1957, LeFevre founded the Freedom School, which he ran until 1973, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In 1965, after a flood devastated the campus, the school and college...
from 1957 to 1968. LeFevre extended this work to the related
Rampart CollegeRampart College was a libertarian educational institution established by Robert LeFevre in Colorado, United States.
, 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 JackBilly Jack is the second, and highest grossing, in a series of motion pictures centering on a fictional character of the same name, played by Tom Laughlin who also directed and co-wrote the script. Filming began in Prescott, Arizona, in fall 1969, but the movie was not completed until 1971....
and the 1974 sequel
The Trial of Billy Jack.
Freedom SchoolsFreedom Schools were temporary, alternative free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States...
were sometimes used for alternative schools set up by civil rights activists in the
southern United StatesThe Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, Down South, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States...
in opposition to the
racial segregationRacial segregation is the separation of different racial groups in daily life, such as eating in a restaurant, drinking from a water fountain, using a washroom, attending school, going to the movies, or in the rental or purchase of a home. Segregation may be mandated by law or exist through social...
in public schools which was mandated at the time by
Jim CrowThe Jim Crow laws were state and local laws in the United States enacted between 1876 and 1965. They mandated de jure segregation in all public facilities, with a supposedly "separate but equal" status for black Americans...
laws.