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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/cindy-hyde-smith-segregated-academy_us_5bf9864be4b03b230fa2053b
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith recently drew criticism for remarks condoning public hangings and the Confederacy.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican Mississippi senator who made comments condoning “public hangings,” attended a “segregated” school when she was younger, the Jackson Free Press reported Friday after unearthing a 1975 yearbook photo.
The school, Lawrence County Academy, was set up for white parents to avoid sending their children to school with black children, according to the Free Press. Many such schools, dubbed “segregation academies,” were created in the South following desegregation as inexpensive, private educational options.
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The school she went to was established in 1970, one year after the SCOTUS ordered the state to desegregate its schools.
In her yearbook photograph she appears to be with a group of fellow cheer leaders but wearing Civil War regalia & holding a Confederate flag.
Hyde-Smith sent her daughter to a segregated school located in a mostly black town.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith recently drew criticism for remarks condoning public hangings and the Confederacy.
Cindy Hyde-Smith, the Republican Mississippi senator who made comments condoning “public hangings,” attended a “segregated” school when she was younger, the Jackson Free Press reported Friday after unearthing a 1975 yearbook photo.
The school, Lawrence County Academy, was set up for white parents to avoid sending their children to school with black children, according to the Free Press. Many such schools, dubbed “segregation academies,” were created in the South following desegregation as inexpensive, private educational options.
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The school she went to was established in 1970, one year after the SCOTUS ordered the state to desegregate its schools.
In her yearbook photograph she appears to be with a group of fellow cheer leaders but wearing Civil War regalia & holding a Confederate flag.
Hyde-Smith sent her daughter to a segregated school located in a mostly black town.