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Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their...

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white flight to the suburbs, and in the foundation of numerous segregation academies and private schools which most African-American students, though...

competition for its member schools. It was founded in 1968 by a group of segregation academies. The association also operates two other organizations, the Mississippi...

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. Segregation can involve the spatial separation of the...

George Walton Academy withdrew from the Georgia Independent School Association, which consists largely of former segregation academies, and started to...

particularly brutal and outspoken proponent of slavery. Like other segregation academies, the Hammond's name was chosen to buttress the lost cause myth in...

lawsuits compelling integration in the 1960s, white parents organized segregation academies. Attendance at private schools in Mississippi increased from 5,000...

schools of their choice. In practice, this caused the creation of "segregation academies". On January 11, 1957, U.S. district judge Walter E. Hoffman, in...

football at three separate segregation academies, including Madison-Ridgeland Academy, Canton Academy and Tri-County Academy. Boyce was appointed chancellor...

2012). "In Southern Towns, 'Segregation Academies' Are Still Going Strong". The Atlantic. Retrieved June 6, 2021. "Academy nears first year's end". The...

a ministry of his Thomas Road Baptist Church. Unlike many other segregation academies, the school became racially integrated two years after its opening...

Prep was formed through the merger of two segregation academies, Wade Hampton Academy and Willington Academy. In the early 1960s, school desegregation...

including Camden Academy. When the county's public schools were forced to integrate in 1970, Wilcox Academy was one of three segregation academies that were...

graduating class in 1966. Although most segregation academies had markedly deficient curricula, the Montgomery Academy was one of a small number with accreditation...

Parklane Academy is a private K-12 Protestant school located in McComb, Mississippi. It was founded in 1970 as a segregation academy. Parklane Academy is a...

coached football at Canton Academy. In 2019, Boyce was criticized his past affiliation with segregation academies like Canton Academy. Reed Stringer (1979–)...

Sex segregation, sex separation, sex partition, gender segregation, gender separation, or gender partition is the physical, legal, or cultural separation...

describing the emergence of segregation academies, noted that "Few of them are quite so openly redneck as the Marvell Academy." In the 2015-2016 school...

Hammond Academy when founded in 1966. It was one of many private schools known as segregation academies, established to preserve racial segregation in schools...