The Peter Spencer Family Life Foundation sponsors the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom School. The Freedom School is a literacy program, based in the historic Mother African Union Church, that works with children to help with their reading comprehension and teaches that they can make a difference in their community.

The program, held in partnership with local congregations and community organizations, seeks to build strong, literate, and empowered children prepared to make a difference in themselves, their families, communities, nation, and the world. By providing high quality, culturally relevant curriculum rooted in the civil rights movement and enrichment activities for children who might otherwise not have access to books, the CDF Freedom Schools program helps curb summer learning loss and close achievement gaps. The program is led by college student role models who share their enthusiasm for learning.