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In 1968 the district had 4,100 "colored" students and about 1,000 white students. At that time the district had a "freedom of choice" system. During that year, the superintendent of the school system stated his opposition to a proposed rapid integration, arguing that doing so would cause white people to leave the school district.
Indianola is the birthplace of the blues musician Albert King. The blues harp player, Little Arthur Duncan, was born in Indianola in 1934. [18] B.B. King grew up in Indianola as a child. He came to the blues festival named after him every year. King referenced the city with the title of his 1970 album Indianola Mississippi Seeds.
Indianola Career and Technical Center and Indianola Academic Achievement Academy, 10-12 schools, were also a part of the district. [ 7 ] In the mid-2000s the schools (aside from Gentry) were Lockard Elementary School, Carver Lower Elementary School, Carver Upper Elementary School, Robert L. Merritt Middle School, and Pennington Jr. High School.
Its largest city and county seat is Indianola. [3] Sunflower County comprises the Indianola, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Cleveland-Indianola, MS Combined Statistical Area. It is located in the Mississippi Delta region. Mississippi State Penitentiary (Parchman Farm) is located in Sunflower County.
As of 1996, nearly 90% of Indianola's public school students were of African-American ethnic heritage. [4] Meanwhile, Indianola Academy's student body, which numbered between 500 and 1,000 students over the school's first three decades of existence, included only 4 or 5 black students during that entire time.
A Black Lives Matter activist called on “black vigilantes” to avenge Jordan Neely’s death immediately following Daniel Penny’s acquittal Monday. “People want to jump up and choke us and ...
Restoration Ministries Christian Academy (RMCA) is a private K-12 Christian school located in Indianola, Mississippi.An outreach ministry of the Restoration Ministries of the Apostolic Faith, it as of 2015 has 84 students from the counties of Humphreys, Leflore, Sunflower, and Washington. [1]
Amit Sachdev, MD, MS, medical director in the Department of Neurology at Michigan State University, agrees. “The brain requires blood sugar. It doesn’t have any other significant source of ...