Jerry Falwell

===Liberty Christian Academy===
{{Main|Liberty Christian Academy}}
During the 1950s and 1960s, Falwell spoke and campaigned against the [[Civil and political rights|civil rights]] activist [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] and the [[racial desegregation]] of public school systems by the US federal government. Liberty Christian Academy (LCA, founded as Lynchburg Christian Academy) is a Christian school in Lynchburg which was described in 1966 by the ''Lynchburg News'' as "a private school for white students".

The Lynchburg Christian Academy later opened in 1967 by Falwell as a [[segregation academy]] and as a ministry of Thomas Road Baptist Church.{{sfnm |1a1=Dowland |1y=2007 |1p=23 |2a1=Dowland |2y=2015 |2p=27 |3a1=Griffith |3y=2017}}

The Liberty Christian Academy is recognized as an educational facility by the [[Commonwealth of Virginia]] through the Virginia State Board of Education,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://77241.inspyred.com/images/2012-11-14%20State%20Recognized.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-03-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020114757/http://77241.inspyred.com/images/2012-11-14%20State%20Recognized.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-20 }}</ref> [[Southern Association of Colleges and Schools]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.advanc-ed.org/oasis2/u/par/accreditation/summary?institutionId=33686|title=AdvancED - Institution Summary|access-date=January 21, 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327040621/http://www.advanc-ed.org/oasis2/u/par/accreditation/summary?institutionId=33686|archive-date=March 27, 2017}}</ref> and the [[Association of Christian Schools International]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.acsiglobal.org/member-search |title=Member Search « ACSI |access-date=2014-04-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327031712/http://www.acsiglobal.org/member-search |archive-date=2014-03-27 }}</ref>