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2019-11-08 | A white Southerner confronts her schooling at a segregated private ‘academy’ and challenges others to do the same - The Washington Post
'Southern public officials had vehemently resisted allowing black and white children to go to the same schools despite the court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. '
'Fentress, an only child who grew up middle-class, wrote that she “felt bad about my new school’s obvious purpose. '
'Green wrote about how county officials shuttered the public schools rather than comply with court-ordered desegregation, leaving black children with no formal education. “Some did nothing for the five years public schools were shut. '
'More than 750,000 white children are estimated to have attended more than 3,000 segregated academies during the first half of the 1970s, as public school systems were changed by a Supreme Court ruling upholding busing as a way to force desegregation. '
'They were as heedless — and white — as I was.”“This is not a proud narrative, and it’s not an exercise in negative nostalgia. '
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'Southern public officials had vehemently resisted allowing black and white children to go to the same schools despite the court’s landmark 1954 Brown v. '
'Fentress, an only child who grew up middle-class, wrote that she “felt bad about my new school’s obvious purpose. '
'Green wrote about how county officials shuttered the public schools rather than comply with court-ordered desegregation, leaving black children with no formal education. “Some did nothing for the five years public schools were shut. '
'More than 750,000 white children are estimated to have attended more than 3,000 segregated academies during the first half of the 1970s, as public school systems were changed by a Supreme Court ruling upholding busing as a way to force desegregation. '
'They were as heedless — and white — as I was.”“This is not a proud narrative, and it’s not an exercise in negative nostalgia. '
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