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 […]
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Go Us!
Jackie Jones Clowney, Briarcrest Christian School, Class of 1985 Memphis, Tennessee Until reading The Academy Stories and having discussions with friends who attended private schools beginning in the […]
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As Sesame Street Started So Did Our Seg Academy
Debbie Hewitt Smith, Leland Academy, Class of 1974 Leland, Mississippi “How many of you are planning to go to the new academy?” It was 1969. I was in […]
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We Said the Sheriff’s Name. But What About Emmett Till’s ?
Courtney Clark, Strider Academy, Class of 1988 Tallahatchie County, Mississippi I was 24 years old in 1994 when the State of Mississippi retried Byron De La Beckwith for […]