What were the Freedom Schools?

# Freedom Schools: Education as an Act of Rebellion

In the summer of 1964, during one of the most dangerous moments of the Civil Rights movement, college-age volunteers headed to Mississippi to establish forty-one Freedom Schools designed to teach Black students the history, self-worth, and civic engagement that segregated schools deliberately withheld from them. Josh and Chuck explore how these makeshift classrooms—sometimes held under trees or on church lawns—became centers of resistance where students wrote their own newspapers, poetry, and even a Declaration of Independence while facing constant threats of violence from white supremacists determined to stop them. It's a powerful story about how education itself became a revolutionary act and how six weeks of grassroots teaching helped spark a generation of civil rights activists.