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Jackson Academy is a private school in Jackson, Mississippi founded by Loyal M. Bearrs in 1959. [2] Bearrs claimed he established the school to teach using an accelerated phonics program he developed, [3] [4] but the school remained completely racially segregated until 1986, even forgoing tax exemption in 1970 to avoid having to accept Black students.
In Meridian, Lamar Academy is less than five percent black in a city that is 62% African American. [15] The Meridian public schools remained troubled. In 2012, the city was named in U.S. v. City of Meridian a case that outlined failings in the public school system. [16] Further north in the Red Clay region, Calhoun Academy is 100% white. [17]
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Jackson Preparatory School (Jackson Prep) is a private school in Flowood, Mississippi, a suburb of Jackson, with a controversial history as a segregation academy. [2] The school is coeducational and serves preschool through grade 12.
Woodland Hills Academy was a private high school in Jackson, Mississippi, established in 1969 when the Jackson School Board was ordered to desegregate following the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. [1] Woodland Hills was one of many private schools formed in Mississippi.
"Jackson Academy is a private school in Jackson, Mississippi, founded by Loyal M. Bearss in 1959. Bearss established the school to teach a phonics program he developed, though the school’s administration had a controversial history of racial discrimination through the 1980’s, including foregoing tax exemption in the 1970’s to avoid ...
Jackson School may refer to the following in the United States: University School of Jackson, Jackson, Tennessee, college prep school; Jackson City School, K-12 school in Jackson, Kentucky; Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut; Jackson Jr. High School, Sandusky, Ohio, listed on the NRHP in Sandusky, Ohio
Belhaven University (Belhaven or BU) is a private evangelical Christian university in Jackson, Mississippi. Founded in 1883, the university offers traditional majors, programs of general studies, and pre-professional programs in Christian Ministry , Medicine , Dentistry , Law , and Nursing .