Since the federal courts began ordering Southern school systems to desegregate 20 years ago, white parents have been setting up their own privateand segregatedacademies. In the past few years, court-ordered busing has accelerated this trend. Some 3,500 of these schools now operate in the South with a total enrollment of 750,000, or 10% of the region's white school-age children. TIME Correspondent Jack White has been investigating the "segregation academies" and last week visited one of the best of them in Memphis. His report:
Briarcrest Baptist High School, which opened two years ago after the courts ordered busing in the Memphis schools, has...
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