Pillow Academy
Coordinates: 33°32′03″N 90°15′16″W / 33.534258°N 90.254384°W
Pillow Academy
1966
Independent
Christian
Coeducational
K4 through 12
Approximately $5,000
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and the Mississippi Association of Independent Schools
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Pillow Academy (PA) is an independent, co-educational college preparatory school in unincorporated Leflore County, Mississippi, near Greenwood. It was founded by white parents in 1966 as a segregation academy to avoid having their children attend school with blacks.
The school opened with grades K-8 in 1966. It began as a segregation academy, started in resistance to the integration of the public school system ordered by federal courts more than a decade after segregated schools were ruled to be unconstitutional. From 1967-1969 grades 9 and 10 were established. In 1969 a new high school building was built, and grades 11 and 12 were added. One of the founders of the Pillow Academy was Robert B. Patterson, also founder of the Association of White Citizens' Councils, which opposed the civil rights movement, including allowing African Americans their constitutional right to vote.
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