Sentence examples for white academy from inspiring English sources

An old family friend, Stewart Buckle, left Onancock High School to attend a private white academy created after desegregation in the late 1960s.

You signed up for a number of earnest yet dull films, tailor-made to appeal to old white Academy voters and pretty much no one else.

"You have carved out a private white academy inside the district," Andre Braugher, a father of two from South Orange, told the Board of Education at a recent meeting.

The overwhelmingly white academy has been accused of racial insensitivity for more than a generation.

I don't believe that there is inherent or dormant racism because of the amount of white academy members. .

I don't believe that there is inherent or dormant racism because of the amount of white academy members.

The White Citizens Councils were instrumental in forming private white "academies" as alternatives to the integrated school systems.

In fact, in the early years after Brown, southern whites used public school funds to open private white academies until we sued to outlaw the practice.

As discussed in that case, hundreds and sometimes thousands of white students left individual districts for newly opened or expanded private schools, many of them white academies that experienced astronomical growth, practically overnight.

(Many legislators believed that if the public schools closed, "white academies" would spring up to offer segregated private education.

While desegregation efforts were met with outward opposition, including violence and school closures, "resistance also took the form of things like school choice and the diversion of public funds for private white academies," Ifill said.