A History of Private Schools/Segregation/Evangelical Academies and Race in the American South..

"The goal of these evangelical schools was not a “better form of education” but denial of education." Why Humanity Must Overcome Religion | Carl Sagan. https://youtu.be/-EdmF4OyoKI Segregation Academies Then and School Choice Configurations Today in Deep South States. 70 years ago, school integration was a dream many believed could actually happen. It hasn’t. The Deep South states deliberately circumvented Brown by eliminating funding for integrated schools; impeding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) legal activities; allowing state actions to nullify federal authority within their borders; enforcing unreasonable pupil assignment laws; and providing financial aid to pri vate segregated schools (Ravitch, 1983; Yale Law Journal, 1973). Simply stated, Deep South states attempted to perpetuate dual school systems. In response to these circumventing strategies by local school boards and state governments, the Supreme Court i...