Reginald Shuford-Class of 1984-Cape Fear Academy-Wilmington, North Carolina I spent part of Memorial Day Weekend 2017 in my hometown, Wilmington, North Carolina, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of my […]
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Put Your Hand Down, Little Colored Girl
Paulette Boudreaux Oak Park Elementary, 1960-1964, Laurel, Mississippi Sandy Gavin Elementary, 1964-1966, Laurel, Mississippi Oak Park Junior High, 1966-1967, Laurel, Mississippi Liberty Junior High, 1967-1968, Liberty, Texas Liberty […]
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It Was On the Back of Black Students
W. Ralph Eubanks – Mount Olive High School – Class of 1974 On the edge of the small town of Mount Olive, Mississippi, stands an anonymous red brick […]
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She’d Segregated Me Within Her Classroom
Margaret McMullan Spann Elementary, Jackson, Mississippi 1967-1969 Lake Forest High School, Class of 1978 Lake Forest, Illinois (The names in this essay have been changed.) Miss G welcomed […]
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We Congratulated Ourselves, But It Didn’t Last
Lloyd Gray Meridian High School Class of 1972 Meridian, Mississippi When our class entered Meridian High School in the fall of 1969, reaching the summit longed-for since elementary […]
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The Sisterhood of Lost Souls
Teresa Nicholas Yazoo City High School Class of 1972 Yazoo City, Mississippi When I was growing up, I wanted to be a nun. I was about ten years […]
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Teachers Who Looked Like Me Were More Invested in Me
Jehrod Rose-Alain Jim Hill High School, Class of 2007 Jackson, Mississippi I was born on the west side of the tracks. Raised and educated in the capital […]
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Are You a Seg Academy Alum, Too? Let’s Talk
By Ellen Ann Fentress . Pillow Academy, Class of 1974 A lot of us watched the national interest in a Jackson Free Press story last fall on how […]
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The Academy
By Steve Yarbrough . Indianola Academy, Class of 1975 Steve Yarbrough Indianola Academy, 1975 In the spring of 1966, when I was in third grade at Lockard Elementary, […]
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White Churches Involved at Every Step
Ellen Ann Fentress, The Academy Stories Editor “It’s the Christian thing to do,” she declared. As a high school freshman, I was overhearing adults discuss the coming white […]