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==Education== The City of Ruleville is served by the [[Sunflower County Consolidated School District]].<ref>"[http://www.sunflower.k12.ms.us/ruleville.html Ruleville Schools]{{Dead link|date=April 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}." [[Sunflower County School District]]. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.</ref> Schools serving Ruleville and in Ruleville include Ruleville Central Elementary School, Ruleville Middle School, and [[Thomas E. Edwards, Sr. High School]] (formerly Ruleville Central High School).<ref>"[http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/districts/Sunflwr.htm Sunflower County] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110617214544/http://www.mde.k12.ms.us/Districts/Sunflwr.htm |date=2011-06-17 }}." [[Mississippi Department of Education]]. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.</ref> [[North Sunflower Academy]] is in an [[unincorporated area]] of Sunflower County, about {{convert|2|mi|km}} north of Ruleville.<ref>"[http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/drivingdirections.html Driving directions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714195407/http://www.northsunfloweracademy.com/drivingdirections.html |date=2011-07-14 }}." North Sunflower Academy. Retrieved on August 10, 2010.</ref><ref>Murray, Coddy. "[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SL&p_theme=sl&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB086F9E4D0178D&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM SERVICE NOTES]." ''[[St. Charles Post]]'' at the ''[[St. Louis Post Dispatch]]''. July 2, 1998. Retrieved on February 27, 2011. "He is a graduate of North Sunflower Academy of Ruleville, Miss.,[...]"</ref> The school originated as a [[segregation academy]], founded to evade orders to integrate the public schools.<ref>Moye, J. Todd. ''Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986''. [[UNC Press Books]], 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ4IoG1nQuUC&dq=%22Central+Delta+Academy%22&pg=PA243 243]. Retrieved from [[Google Books]] on March 2, 2011. "Sunflower County's two other segregation academies— North Sunflower Academy, between Drew and Ruleville, and [[Central Delta Academy]] in Inverness— both sprouted in a similar fashion." {{ISBN|0-8078-5561-8}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8078-5561-4}}.</ref> [[Delta State University]] is located ten miles away in [[Cleveland, Mississippi|Cleveland]]. During the Civil Rights Movement, 1964 was [[Freedom Summer]], organizing for voter registration and education, and adding to the curriculum in the local segregated schools for blacks. The "Ruleville Freedom School" was established to try to provide an alternative to the second-class education that had been provided to black students. It tried to prepare students to be part of change and a democratic society, to prepare for the civil freedom that the movement supported and would press the political system to provide.<ref name=Moye124>Moye, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KZ4IoG1nQuUC&dq=%22The+Ruleville+Freedom+School+was%22&pg=PA128 128]. - p. 125 says "In the early months of 1964," so page 128 is talking about things in 1964</ref> The Sunflower County Library operates the Horace Stansel Memorial Library in Ruleville.<ref>"[http://www.sunflower.lib.ms.us/sunflower/directory.asp Sunflower County Library Directory]." Sunflower County Library. Retrieved on July 21, 2010.</ref>
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