Joel L. Alvis, Jr.—- Class of 1973 —- Jackson Preparatory School —- Flowood, Mississippi The flight back to Jackson that night in June 2023 was full. I was […]
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Too Poor for the Academy and Better For It
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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]