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DESCRIPTION:Join ProPublica to discuss how private schools known as “segregation 
 academies” in the Deep South continue to preserve divisions within 
 communities.\n\nJun 5, 2024 @ 4 PM PT (6 pm CDT) - Virtual Event\n\n\n70th 
 Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS\n\nAfter the U.S. 
 Supreme Court ruled state-sanctioned school segregation unconstitutional in 
 the 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, white parents and community 
 leaders opened hundreds of private schools across the Deep South that came 
 to be known as “segregation academies.” Seven decades after Brown, many 
 of these private schools survive and often continue to perpetuate 
 segregated education systems.\n\nWilcox County, Alabama, is a rural area in 
 the heart of the state’s Black Belt where schools are sharply segregated 
 by race. The local segregation academy, Wilcox Academy, is nearly all 
 white, and the public schools are virtually all Black. Many families in 
 Wilcox County, Black and white, feel that their children would be better 
 off, culturally and resource-wise, if they were schooled together. But they 
 have not been able to figure out how to integrate the schools.\n\nDuring 
 this virtual event — the first in a series focused on education in 2024 
 — reporter Jennifer Berry Hawes and a panel of speakers will discuss the 
 initial story in Hawes’ series on segregation academies and how these 
 institutions preserve divisions within communities. It will also address 
 the history of these schools and what racial divisions still look like in 
 one Black Belt county.\n\nCan't attend? Register to receive a recording of 
 the program.\n\nSpeakers include:\n\n--Amberly Sheffield, The University of 
 Mississippi PhD student and historical consultant\n\n--Dr. Andre 
 Saulsberry, Wilcox County Public Schools superintendent\n\n--Jennifer Berry 
 Hawes, ProPublica reporter\n\n--Mara Shalhoup, ProPublica South 
 editor\n\n--Sheryl Threadgill-Matthews, BAMA Kids, Inc. executive director, 
 and one of the first Black students to desegregate Wilcox County 
 schools\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/19/18866418.php
SUMMARY:The Legacy of Segregation Academies: How Segregated Schools Continue in the Deep South
LOCATION:Online event
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/19/18866418.php
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