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!” […]
Academy Stories
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We Weren’t Represented As Our White Peers Were
Brittany Wilson-Jackson Preparatory School-Class of 2020-Jackson, MS Jackson Prep’s history as a 1970 breakaway all-white private school at the time of public school integration wasn’t any secret to […]
Public Schools
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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 […]
Academy Stories
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The Point? There Was None
Catherine Bigger, Ph.D. –Magnolia Academy–Class of 1983 -Jackson, Mississippi The culminating moment from my twelve years of schooling at white Citizens’ Council School Number 6 (later Magnolia Academy) […]
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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. […]
Public Schools
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There’s Common Ground in the Hot Cheetos
Mark Davis –Band teacher in Mississippi and Tennessee public schools 1982-1985, 1987-1989 and 1991 until present–Band teacher at Starkville Academy 1989-1991 You learn along with your students if […]
Public Schools
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Integrated Isn’t the Same as Transformed
Selika Sweet – Murrah High School – Class of 1979 I was 14 years old in 1976. It was the national Bicentennial year, heavy on firework shows, programs […]
70s & 80s Alums / Admissions Project
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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 […]
70s & 80s Alums / Public Schools
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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 […]