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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]