The Academy Stories/Admissions

08/05/2026

Joe Reiff reflects on his meaningful and occasionally messy time learning in his newly integrated public high school. From textbooks? Sure, but the education pushed lots further for teenaged Joe.

by: eafentressPosted on: May 6, 2026May 7, 2026 The White Parents Had a Failure of Imagination Joseph T. Reiff,  Murrah High School  Class of 1972 Jackson, Mississippi It was spring 1970, in tenth grade English class on the second floor of Jackson Murrah High School’s east end. Fifth period. Beg...

08/05/2026

Daaiyah Heard hopes to hear stories from legacy segregation academy alums to interview anonymously for her dissertation in progress. Meanwhile, here's her own story as a Columbus, Mississippi student and then Terry, Mississippi high school teacher

by: eafentressPosted on: May 6, 2026May 7, 2026 I Wondered Where Sarah Was. It’s My Dissertation Topic Now Daaiyah Heard Columbus High School Class of 2007 Columbus, Mississippi Terry High School Teacher 2017-2023 Terry, Mississippi      I am a proud product of the Columbus Municipal School D...

30/03/2026

John Mark Pitner’s wry story captures a serious truth about 1970 school integration which has continuing impact still. The initial success of public school integration varied town to town, hinging on how community leaders framed the importance of making it work.

by: jschoolerPosted on: March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 Don’t Torpedo It, He Told My Daddy John Mark Pitner standing far left in photo. John Mark Pitner: Winona Academy 1970, Winona High School Class of 1982, Winona, Mississippi I acknowledge there’s evidence the Winona Academy First Grade Class Fa...

19/01/2026

As always, Marshall Ramsey nails it! HB 2 is loaded with public dollars for private schools with stipulations that the private schools cannot be held accountable. Meanwhile, HB 2 devotes a complete section in its 446 pages to new, unfunded accountability and reporting requirements for public schools.

Courtesy of Mississippi Today
https://ow.ly/7sFL50XYils

01/12/2025

The latest from Marshall Ramsey: Whose choice?
https://mississippitoday.org/?p=1160442

27/10/2025

There’s nothing ‘conservative’ about giving away billions in tax dollars without accountability.

10/10/2025

From Dr. Ivory Phillips. Thanks to Dr. Phillips for his points at our Oct. 1 History Is Lunch program (watch the program on the Oct. 4 post below on our page) and for today's opinion piece in The Jackson Advocate

The topic of discussion for last week’s History is Lunch program was “Mississippi’s Legacy of School Desegregation.” It featured Ellen Ann Fentress and

09/10/2025

The story of Beatrice Alexander Ross and others in Holmes County Mississippi whose 1969 Supreme Court case transformed schools in the South