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freedom school en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (US, countable, historical, uncountable) An alternative school for black students in places where they were denied access to adequate public school.
    • When I became a teacher, I used Blues For Mr. Charlie in freedom school in Mississippi, and Go Tell it On the Mountain with my first high school class. 1980 February 9, Andrea Loewenstein, “James Baldwin and His Critics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 10:

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