The missing white children

Banned Histories of Race in America

The year was 1968. In Holmes County, Mississippi, 771 white students were enrolled in public schools. Then, something happened. In 1969 that number had dropped to 228. In 1970 it was zero.

All the white students were gone, but what could possibly have happened to them? Where did they go? Was it an alien abduction? Vampires? Werewolves? M-m-m-mummies?

A different kind of monster.

In 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. Powerful white Southerners reacted in a couple of different ways. One was to begin creating private, white-only “segregation academies”.