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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]
John T. Morgan Academy, commonly known as Morgan Academy, is a school in Selma, Alabama, USA, originally founded in 1965 as a segregation academy. History [ edit ]
Valwood School was founded as a segregation academy by local white people in response to the federally mandated racial desegregation of public schools. [2] [3] [4] Valwood's first classes were inaugurated in September 1969, in the old Central Elementary School building in Valdosta.
The school was founded by Lillian Parrott and her husband Marion A. Parrott, a former member of the North Carolina General Assembly and attorney. [4] In 1964, the Parrotts, along with several others opened Arendell Parrott Academy, named after the Parrotts deceased son, Marion Arendell Parrott Jr.
Orangeburg Prep has two campuses: the Lower Campus, housing preschool to 5th grade; and the Upper Campus, housing grades 6 to 12. OPS also operates a year-round day care center on the Lower Campus. Orangeburg Prep was formed through the merger of two segregation academies, Wade Hampton Academy and Willington Academy.
Researchers call these “segregation academies,” and many of them remain mostly white. As of the 2021-2022 school year, Aucilla’s student body was more than 90% white, according to federal data .
Pastor W. Wayne Allen, founder of Briarcrest Christian School. In 1970, the leaders and members of East Park Baptist Church began to plan a collection of segregation academies — schools that would allow white parents to avoid having their children in desegregated public schools — in anticipation of the court-ordered racial integration of Memphis City Schools.
Monroe Academy was founded in response to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling. Alabama GOP Candidate Who Attended ‘Segregation Academy’ Pushes For Defunding Public ...