Tunica Academy

For the 1965–1966 school year, 67% of the Tunica Academy's tuition revenue came from grants provided by the state of Mississippi.In 1969, a federal court ruled that, since, in the court's opinion, Tunica Academy would refuse to admit qualified black students, the tuition grant program violated the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment.[8] In 1970, the IRS suspended the school's non-profit status due to its policies of racial discrimination.The court held that any program that provides aid to schools that discriminate on the basis of race is unconstitutional.In its ruling, the high court noted that, as of 1971, Tunica Academy declined to attest to a racially non-discriminatory admissions policy.
TunicaMississippiUnited StatesCoordinatesPrivate Schoolhigh schoolunincorporatedTunica Countysegregation academyMississippi Private School AssociationEducation segregation in the Mississippi Deltaequal protection clausefourteenth amendmentClarion-LedgerNorwood v. HarrisonUS Supreme CourtRosa Fort High SchoolTunica Public SchoolsJohnny ParkerU.S. Census BureauCoffey v. State Educational Finance CommissionSimon and SchusterTunica, Mississippi1st JackpotFitzgeraldsGold StrikeHollywoodHorseshoeResortsSam's TownTunica RoadhouseHarrah'sTunica County SDRosa Fort HSCoahoma Community College