The Indianola Academy is a K-12 private school in Indianola, Mississippi. Indianola Academy offers an elementary school, a middle school, and a college preparatory education to Indianola and the surrounding areas. It originated as a segregation academy.
Administration
The headmaster, high school principal, and elementary principal are Sammy Henderson, Charles D. Mason, and Katherine B. Gibbs, respectively.
Accreditation
Indianola Academy is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, the Mississippi Private School Association, and the Southern Association of Independent Schools.
History
In the post Brown v. Board of Education era, White Americans in the Indianola era had planned to establish a segregation academy. The school began in 1965 with four sections in grades 1 and 2, with a total of 70 students. For the 1966-1967 and the 1967-1968 school years, classes were held at the First Baptist Church. In the fall of 1967 the school had nine grades, with a total of 241 students. The school conducted the 1968-1969 school year in a new building. During that year it served grades 1-10 and had 280 students.
In 1969, Once the court case ruled in favor of the federal government on a Friday, the White townspeople almost immediately established Indianola Academy as a separate campus, with classes beginning on a Monday. The school was not directly operated by a White citizens' council. J. Todd Moye, author of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986, said that the school's "link to council ideology was direct." Isabel Lee, then the sole African-American on the Indianola School District board, recalled that no White students showed up at on that Monday. Moye said "Indianola Academy's relatively quick organization and construction could only have been the result of massive organization on the part of white segregationists." During the beginning of the 1969-1970 school year the school had about 600 students in grades 1-12. The school accepted about 900 students after the end of the first semester, giving the school a total of 1,500 students. In the 1970-1971 school year the elementary classes continued to be held at the area Baptist and Methodist churches, while the students in grades 7-12 moved to the Educational Plant at U.S. Highway 82 East.
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Coordinates: 33°27′31″N 90°38′6″W / 33.45861°N 90.635°W
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