By Caroline Langston, Manchester Academy, 1979-1982 We were public school people. That was one of the first, and earliest identifications I had—probably because I was born when most […]

By Deborah Pope Kehoe, Council School Manhattan, Class of 1973 It would be one of the questions, I knew. When I entered the English grad school program at […]

By Neely Tucker. Starkville Academy, Class of 1982 In late October of 2018, I came back home to Mississippi, where my people have lived since the 1830s, to […]

By Mary Frances Richards. Indianola Academy, Class of 1978 In the 1960s and 1970s, the first law of life in the Mississippi Delta was the color of your […]

By Kelly Foster Lundquist. Manchester Academy 1989-1995 In the spring of 1989, six months before I entered Manchester Academy as a 7th grader, I went through three rounds […]

By Marsh Nichols Jackson Preparatory School (Jackson, Mississippi), Class of 1974 It’s the three white girls in blackface I remember. I went to Jackson Preparatory School, in Mississippi’s […]

By Nancy Crowell. Jackson Preparatory School, Class of 1973 Late in the summer of 1970, my parents broke the news to me that I was going to a […]

By Harriet Riley. Lamar High School, Class of 1977 The school felt temporary. Built like a warehouse with aluminum siding and a flat roof, my high school had […]

By Stuart Levin Beeson Academy Hattiesburg, Mississippi 1976-1977 I spent only one year at a seg academy in Mississippi, but don’t think any other year of my K-12 […]

By Bridget Smith Pieschel Winston Academy (Louisville, Mississippi), Class of 1975 Bridget Smith Pieschel Winston Academy (Louisville, Mississippi), Class of 1975 I assume that most white girls born […]