Editing Quitman County, Mississippi (section)

==Education==
On July 24, 1969, federal judge [[William Keady]] found that Quitman County school officials were maintaining an unconstitutional [[de jure]] racially segregated school system, and he placed the school board under the supervision of [[United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi]]. As of 1993, this order had not been set aside.<ref name=hull>{{cite web | url = http://openjurist.org/1/f3d/1450/hull-v-quitman-county-board-of-education | title = 1 F. 3d 1450 - Hull v. Quitman County Board of Education | date = September 2, 1993 | volume = F3d | issue = 1 | page = 1450 | access-date = August 6, 2011}}</ref>  In March 1991, the school board asked the district court for permission to close Crowder elementary and junior high school, a majority-white school. The court gave permission, and a group of parents sued for an injunction to prevent the closing. The district court denied them an injunction, and this decision was affirmed by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]].<ref name=hull />

By 1975, the majority of African-American students in Quitman County were attending public schools, which had earlier been segregated. But the majority of white students had been moved into newly established private academies.<ref name=wright>{{Cite news| author = Amy Nathan Wright | title = The 1968 Poor People's Campaign: Marks, Mississippi and the Mule Train | pages= 109–143}} in {{cite book| title = Civil Rights History from the Ground Up: Local Struggles, a National Movement | editor = Emilye Crosby | publisher = University of Georgia Press | year = 2011 | isbn = 978-0-8203-3865-1}} [https://books.google.com/books?id=gwVbfvfYEZkC&lpg=PA113& at google books]</ref> This situation has continued; in 2007 the [[Mississippi Department of Education]] found that the students in the district were 97.92% African American, 1.81% White, and 0.27% Hispanic.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://orsap.mde.k12.ms.us:8080/MAARS/indexProcessor.jsp |title=Mississippi Assessment and Accountability Reporting System |publisher=Office of Research and Statistics, Mississippi Department of Education |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070323012858/http://orsap.mde.k12.ms.us:8080/MAARS/indexProcessor.jsp |archive-date=March 23, 2007 }}</ref>

Schools in Quitman County remain effectively segregated by race. White students almost exclusively attend private schools while Black children attend the local public schools.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! School
! Total Students
! White Students
! Black Students
| Note
|-
|Delta Academy (Private)
|175
|147 (84.0%)
|17 (9.7%)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=Delta Academy |url=https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/pss/privateschoolsearch/school_detail.asp?Search=1&State=28&County=Quitman&NumOfStudentsRange=more&IncGrade=-1&LoGrade=-1&HiGrade=-1&ID=00735873 |website=National Center for Educational Statistics |publisher=US Department of Education |access-date=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
|-
|M. S. Palmer High School (Public)
|351
|4 (1.1%)
|347 (98.9%)
|<ref>{{cite web |title=M S Palmer High School |url=https://nces.ed.gov/globallocator/sch_info_popup.asp?Type=Public&ID=280381000730 |website=National Center for Educational Statistics |publisher=US Department of Education |access-date=June 15, 2019}}</ref>
|-
|Combined (Public plus private) 
|526 
|151 (28.7%)
|364 (69.2%)
|}
* '''Public School Districts'''
** [[Quitman County School District (Mississippi)|Quitman County School District]] - The only school district in the county.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28119_quitman/DC10SD_C28119_001.pdf|title=SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Quitman County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=July 31, 2022}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/dc10map/sch_dist/st28_ms/c28119_quitman/DC10SD_C28119_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>
* '''Private Schools'''
** [[Delta Academy (Mississippi)|Delta Academy]] (Marks)<ref>[http://www.deltaacademy.org/ Home]. Delta Academy. Retrieved on April 8, 2012. "1150 Riverside Drive Marks, MS 38646"</ref>