White Citizens Councils Fund Segregation Academies to Evade Desegregation

Following Brown v. Board of Education (1954), White Citizens Councils across the South fund and organize private 'segregation academies' to allow white students to exit public schools rather than integrate. Mississippi alone eventually has over 150 such academies receiving state vouchers for tuition. Public schools in some districts are defunded and closed. Many segregation academies survive today as private schools in the South.