Segregation academy
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Segregation academies are private schools in the Southern United States that were founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children attend integrated public schools. They
Central Delta Academy in Inverness, Mississippi, was a segregation academy.
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Massive resistance
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Massive resistance was a political strategy created by American white supremacist politicians Harry F. Byrd and James M. Thomson aimed at getting Virginia officials to pass laws and policies preventin
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…to private schools, so founding new academies gave white parents a way to continue to educate their children separately from blacks. In Virginia, the "massive resistance" campaign led Prince Edward County to close its public schools from 1959 to 1964; the only education in the county was a segregation academy, funded…
Harry F. Byrd, a Democratic political figure who created the massive resistance strategy