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The Mississippi Red Clay region was a center of education segregation. Before the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, Mississippi sponsored freedom of choice policies that effectively segregated schools. After Brown, the effort was private with some help from government. Government support has dwindled in every decade since.
An integrated classroom in Anacostia High School, Washington, D.C., in 1957. In the United States, school integration (also known as desegregation) is the process of ending race-based segregation within American public and private schools.
"The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980". Journal of Southern History. 73 (2): 496– 497. doi:10.2307/27649461. JSTOR 27649461. - Located at ProQuest; Sunderman, Gail L (2007). "The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870 - 1980". Southern Quarterly. 44 (4): 211.
The Mississippi Delta region. The Mississippi Delta region has had the most segregated schools—and for the longest time—of any part of the United States.As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American.
Eventually, on November 7, 1969, the courts issued an order to desegregate the county schools. In 1970, sixteen years after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs. Board of Education, the Covington County School District began integration of all its schools, [5] with the exception of Hopewell Elementary. [7]
Throughout its history, Mississippi has produced notable education inequalities due to racial segregation and underfunding of black schools, as well as rural zoning and lack of commitment to funding education. In the 21st century, Mississippi struggles to meet national assessment standards, and the state has low graduation rates.
Three Mississippi teachers received the Milken Educator Award in early January 2024. ... Davis is a math teacher at Houston High School in Houston (Mississippi). Her Milken award marks the first ...
Desoto Christian Academy is a private school in Olive Branch, Mississippi.. The school was founded in 1970 as Ark Academy, a segregation academy for caucasian students exclusively, one of dozens opened across Mississippi at that time in the wake of Supreme Court rulings on school integration.