freedom school

English

Noun

freedom school (countable and uncountable, plural freedom schools)

  1. (US, historical) An alternative school for black students in places where they were denied access to adequate public school.
    • 1980 February 9, Andrea Loewenstein, “James Baldwin and His Critics”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 10:
      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.
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