Jon Altman–Class of 1977–Greenville High School–Greenville,Mississippi My family moved from Jacksonville, Florida to Jackson, Mississippi in October of 1969. There were issues in my parents’ marriage and my […]
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Welcome Students. Don’t Mention Obama
Vania Blaiklock–Portsmouth Christian School–2000-2010–Portsmouth, Virginia I attended a predominantly white private religious school from first grade until my undergraduate graduation. For a period of 15 years, […]
Academy Stories
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It’s Not What I Was Taught. It Was What I Was Not Taught
Caleb Bedford–Class of 2012–East Rankin Academy–Pelachatchie, Mississippi In 2022, I learned something I should have figured out more than a decade earlier. I was listening to a podcast […]
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A “Completely White World”
Ellen Ann Fentress–The Admissions Project editor It’s a truism that we learn what we know by sitting down and writing about it. That’s been the case for the […]
Academy Stories
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We Should All Just Own Up To It
Dusty Rhodes-Nathanael Green Academy-Class of 1978-Siloam,Georgia During the summer of 1971, my family moved from the bustling city of Charlotte, North Carolina to the quiet woods and pastures […]
Public Schools
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The Line Between Us Was Imaginary. The Proms? That Segregation Was Real
Mary Roberson Wiygul – South Panola High School – Class of 1989 – Batesville, Mississippi My first-grade classmates and I were the state’s first students born into a […]
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There Were Moments When I Could Hardly Breathe
Rita Watts Boone-Crystal Springs Attendance Center-Class of 1970-Crystal Springs, Mississippi I didn’t think much about the day in 1970 when I took my senior photos at Crystal Springs […]
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We Envied Private School Students. Why Weren’t We Taught Their History?
Skylar Smith-Northwest Rankin High School- Class of 2021-Flowood, Mississippi Growing up in central Mississippi as a public school student, I constantly heard about the army of private schools […]
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I Offered My Best to a System Not Meant For All the Others I Am
Katrina Byrd-Lanier High School-Class of 1990-Jackson,Mississippi “She can’t even see the ball,” said the kickball team captain on Holy Ghost Elementary School playground. The sun beat down on […]
70s & 80s Alums / Public Schools
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I Never Saw the System
Ellen Morris Prewitt-Myers Park High School-Class of 1975-Charlotte, North Carolina In the fall of 1969 when the United States Supreme Court thundered its Alexander v. Holmes “Now, dammit!” […]