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Lowndes Academy was founded in 1966 as a segregation academy. [2] The school was established by white parents who were boycotting racially integrated public schools in Hayneville. [3] In a 1968 interview, headmaster S. M. Champion said that he "didn't know" if the school would admit a qualified black student. [4]
Lowndes Academy; M. Madison Academy (Alabama) Mars Hill Bible School; Monroe Academy; Mountain View Christian Academy; R. Randolph School; S. Saint James School ...
43 Lowndes County. 44 Macon County. 45 Madison County. ... Valley Fellowship Christian Academy [51] Madison. Bob Jones High School; Madison Academy; Marengo County.
Tupelo Christian Prep (4-6) at West Lowndes (4-5), 7 p.m. Myrtle (7-3) bye. ... Porter’s Chapel Academy 48, Park Place Christian Academy 22. Newton County Academy 55, Deer Creek 18.
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The Alabama Independent School Association is an organization of private schools in Alabama, formed in 1966 as the Alabama Private School Association.Originally a group of eight segregation academies, [1] [2] the membership grew to 60 by the 1971–72 school year. [3]
In the 21st century, Archie Douglas, the headmaster of Montgomery Academy (founded as a segregation academy), said that he is sure "that those who resented the Civil Rights Movement or sought to get away from it took refuge in the academy". [16] As of 2014, the student body of The Montgomery Academy was 10% percent non-white. [17] [18]
Segregation academies were private schools in the United States that opened after 1954 and during the 1960s and 1970s as a way for white parents to avoid the desegregation of public schools as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v.