Joseph T. Reiff, Murrah High School Class of 1972 Jackson, Mississippi It was spring 1970, in tenth grade English class on the second floor of Jackson Murrah High […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
I Wondered Where Sarah Was. It’s My Dissertation Topic Now
Daaiyah Heard Columbus High School Class of 2007 Columbus, Mississippi Terry High School Teacher 2017-2023 Terry, Mississippi I am a proud product of the Columbus Municipal School District, […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
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 […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
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 […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
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 […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
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 […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
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
Posted on:
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!” […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
Treacherous Water…Still
Peter Alford-Greenwood High School-Class of 1971-Greenwood,MS My brother Tim Alford wrote about the legacy of jazz great Mulgrew Miller and the positive effect he had on our desegregation […]
Public Schools
Posted on:
Mulgrew Miller Saw Us Through
Timothy J. Alford –Greenwood High School–Class of 1974 -Greenwood, Mississippi The Yazoo River splits Greenwood, Mississippi into North and South Greenwood. That’s more than a geographic fact. […]