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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.
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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]
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.
Ida Louise Jackson was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on October 12, 1902. She was the daughter of Pompey Jackson and Nellie Jackson. [1] Although a former slave born in Alabama, her father was a pastor and farmer. [2] Her mother was born in New Orleans. Jackson was one of eight children, but was the youngest child and their only girl.
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
Jackson is a home rule-class city [3] in and the county seat of Breathitt County, Kentucky, in the United States. The population was 2,231 according to the 2010 U.S. census. [4] It was the home of the Jackson Academy, which became Lees College.