Wikipedia contributors — Segregation Academy

11 published claims from this book.

• A county abolished public schooling entirely rather than integrate.
• A handful of Black students could trigger near-total white exit from public schools.
• Accrediting bodies expelled schools for maintaining segregationist ties.
• Black parents’ lawsuits forced the IRS to revoke discriminatory schools’ tax exemptions.
• Federal court rulings, not legislation, ended legal segregation-academy operation.
• Founders of segregation academies refused to state their racial motivations.
• Rather than integrate, cities closed shared public amenities outright.
• Segregation academies admitted token black students to appear nondiscriminatory.
• The label ‘Christian education’ functioned as a cover for racial exclusion.
• Timing of a school’s founding can legally constitute evidence of discrimination.
• White parents paid more and traveled farther to avoid integrated classrooms.