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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.
The spirit of a 17-year-old boy that died 120 years ago stands on the stairs of a church in Pasadena, California, waiting for 17-year-old Catherine, who is spending Christmas with her grandmother while her parents are traveling in Europe.
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The story is about two young boys, one black, one white, whose homes are being built within view of an unmarked Civil War battlefield. As they explore the grassy fields near the construction site of their new homes, they learn of the great loss of life that happened there during the war.
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]
Smoky Night is a 1994 children's book by Eve Bunting.It tells the story of a Los Angeles riot and its aftermath through the eyes of a young boy named Daniel. The ongoing fires and looting force neighbors who previously disliked each other to work together to find their cats.
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Eve LaPlante is an American writer of historical non-fiction. LaPlante has published non-fiction books and many articles and essays, primarily about New England historical subjects, including some of her early American ancestors such as Anne Hutchinson in American Jezebel .