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“Segregation academies,” private schools founded by white parents in opposition to desegregation, have left a lasting impact in the Deep South decades after Brown v. Board of Education, according to a recent ProPublica report. Jennifer Berry Hawes investigated two schools in Alabama, including Wilcox Academy, a predominantly white private school,…

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