Freedom School 2292259 225848539 2008-07-15T18:03:37Z 136.182.158.153 The '''Freedom School''' was located in [[Colorado]], [[United States]], offering a series of lectures by [[libertarian]] theorist [[Robert LeFevre]] from 1957 to 1968. LeFevre extended this work to the related Rampart College, 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 atleast 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 Jack]]'' and the [[1974]] sequel ''The Trial of Billy Jack''. [[Freedom Schools]] were sometimes used for alternative schools set up by civil rights activists in the [[southern United States]] in opposition to the [[racial segregation]] in public schools which was mandated at the time by [[Jim Crow laws|Jim Crow]] laws. [[Category:Libertarianism in the United States]]