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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.
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.
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.
For much of its early life, the school was located at Sykes Road and Wheatley Drive in south Jackson, and operated as a K-9 school. In 1985 the school merged with the McCluer Academy, another segregation academy. [4] The combined school used the former McCluer Academy campus on Siwell Road for the high school and middle school.
In February 1974, Jackson's role in the film won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. She continued to work in the theatre, returning to the RSC for the lead in Henrik Ibsen 's Hedda Gabler . A later film version directed by Trevor Nunn was released as Hedda (1975), for which Jackson was nominated for an Oscar.