Segregation academies and a forgotten migration

Throughout the South, state legislatures are adopting and expanding school voucher programs designed to allow parents to use public funds to pay for private school tuition. But this modern day push for school choice is connected to a dark past that recalls America’s long and sometimes forgotten history of resisting integration in the classroom.

Featuring: 

• Jennifer Berry Hawes, reporter with ProPublica
• Crystal Sanders, author of “A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerners, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs”

Links: 

• Read Jennifer Berry Hawes reporting on segregation academies and school vouchers here.
• You can find a transcript of this episode here.

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