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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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!” […]
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Storytelling and Social Justice
Dave Tell – Admissions – The Academy Stories Project Scholar Storytelling is at the very heart of what it means to be human. Indeed, it is a cultural […]
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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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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, […]