Hyde-Smith Attended All-White 'Seg Academy' to Avoid Integration

[brooklynite]

Source: Jackson Free Press

JACKSON, Miss. — U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that were set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals.

A group photo in the 1975 edition of The Rebel—the Lawrence County Academy Yearbook—illustrates the point. High-school cheerleaders smile at the camera as they lie on the ground in front of their pom-poms, fists supporting their heads. In the center, the mascot, dressed in what appears to be an outfit designed to mimic that of a Confederate general, offers a salute as she holds up a large Confederate flag.

Third from the right on the ground is a sophomore girl with short hair, identified in the caption as Cindy Hyde.

The photo, and the recently appointed Republican senator’s attendance at one of the many private schools that was set up to bypass integration, adds historic context to comments she made in recent weeks about a “public hanging” that drew condemnations from across the political spectrum.



Read more: http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/23/hyde-smith-attended-all-white-seg-academy-avoid-in/

[beachbum bob]

1. pretty normal back in the day and still holds true today

[BlueWI]

22. Normal for who?

If you mean northern and southern whites resisting integration, why not say it?

[beachbum bob]

23. didn't think I had to...they still do it with church schools and other private type as well as home

schooling. Make no mistake about it, we have 30% of the population that are 100% against what america stands for unless it excudes all non-whites. Trump has brought them out of the shadows and we need to send them all back.

[sellitman]

2. That culture needs to end.

These private schools need to be flushed.

[LeftInTX]

20. They pretty have been...

Supreme Court decision in Runyon v. McCrary (427 U.S. 160 [1976]), prohibited racial exclusion in private schools

[SKKY]

3. And most voters in MS probably see this more as a feature than a bug...

...she still leads in the polls. MS is a racist state. Why won't the media call a spade a spade here?

[moose65]

4. Amazing

She was appointed last year and kinda flew under the radar, but now that the spotlight is on her, something new comes out every day. Will it be enough? I doubt it, but she seems cut from the same cloth as Palin, DeVos, Jan Brewer, et al. What is it about these crazy Republican women that voters seem to love in these red states? Come on Mississippi- prove us wrong!

[paleotn]

5. Common in the south.

Private schools popped up like wheat in Nashville as deseg progressed. They're still going strong. They will admit black kids today, particularly if they excel at sports, but their legacy lives on. Pathetic then as they are now.

[Cryptoad]

6. Blood on the Leaves,,,,,,

[Sunriser13]

13. ... and Blood at the Root ...

[McKim]

7. She is Culturally Deprived!

Clearly Cindy is "culturally deprived" and provincial in her world view, not fit to be a senator!!

[JPK]

8. "Private Schools" in the south

If you look at the history of many of them, they were established right about the same time that the Civil Rights Bill was passed. I know that is true of a few of those schools here in my city.

[appalachiablue]

18. The article link with the OP goes into private white academies set up

in the South post Brown v. Board, like hers to explicitly to avoid racial integration.

The terms used back then as noted in the article are exactly the same as the ones used in the current private school movement-- 'vouchers,' 'charters,' then 'Xian.' Just incredible.

[LakeSuperiorView]

9. Her Wikipedia article curently contains this info.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Hyde-Smith

Hyde-Smith was born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, the daughter of Lorraine Hyde and Luther Hyde, and grew up in Monticello, Mississippi. She went to Lawrence County Academy in Monticello, Miss., which was a segregation academy set up to circumvent Supreme Court rulings which ordered the desegration of public schools.[7] The school's team nickname was Rebels, the mascot was a confederate general who carried a confederate flag

[kimbutgar]

10. What's sick is she's going to be the new senator from Mississippi.

I have little faith that state will do the right thing and vote in Espy. Crazy orange maggot going there to rile up the racists to vote for her next week.

[hostalover]

11. Watching her talk is as painful as listening to her talk.

[Julian Englis]

12. All teams named Rebels should have their names changed to "Traitors" n/t

[Paladin]

14. But...But...But...FREE SPEECH! HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS!

Oh, I get it: Those high school boys flinging the Nazi salutes on campus in that photo were in Wisconsin, not Mississippi. Makes all the difference here at DU, I guess.....

[Julian Englis]

15. k & R

[Retrograde]

16. Focus on her actions as an adult

She may or may not have had a choice in where she went to high school. However, every recent interview with her or story about her shows that she's currently a vacuous, clueless, air-headed Trumpista who does not deserve to be elected to the US Senate.

[Takket]

17. agreed....

"my parents enrolled me in a racist acadamy" certainly does not make a person racist.

but the fact she wants a front row seat to a lynching as an adult? Yeah......... that makes you racist. this is what we should be talking about

[LeftInTX]

19. I agree

Hubby went to private school cuz he lived in a barrio.
He's Mexican-American and his parents wanted him to get a good education and also didn't want him getting into trouble.

They had attended public schools and wanted their children to be able to attend college. The public schools were not preparing students for college.

[Gothmog]

21. This response from Hyde Smith is sad

Link to tweet

[jmowreader]

24. This is from her Wiki page

In 2007, she voted for a resolution that praised a Confederate soldier for his efforts to defend his homeland.

While she was in the MS Senate, she proposed renaming a state highway for Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.

In 2014, she posted a photo of her wearing a Confederate cap and carrying a rifle. The photo was captioned, "Mississippi history at its best!"

In the state senate, she had a 100-percent pro-life rating. She is a lifetime member of the NRA, but Gun Owners of America only gives her a 50-percent approval rating.

She voted for the Trump Tax Cut and supports the Trump Wall.

Her daughter was sent to, and graduated from, a different segregation academy than the one Cindy attended.

During her short term in the Senate, she voted with Trump more than any other Republican senator.