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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.
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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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Of forty-two segregation academies getting state tuition assistance, eight were in Jackson. [8] Hodding Carter III described the Mississippi association as "the biggest, most tightly organized, the most powerful Citizens' Council of them all." [11] White attendance in Jackson public schools dropped from 21,000 to less than 9,000.
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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 Brown v.
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