Central Delta Academy

Central Delta Academy

Central Delta Academy (CDA) was a private school located in Inverness, Mississippi,[1] which originated as a segregation academy in the mid-20th century, as white parents wanted to avoid desegregation of public schools.[2] The school closed on May 21, 2010.[3] The school building was scheduled to be auctioned off in June of that year.[4]

The school located on U.S. Highway 49, was about 8 miles (13 km) south of Indianola and 15 miles (24 km) north of Belzoni.[1]

The Central Delta Academy once had the Lady Tigers basketball team. As of 1990, the Central Delta and Inverness women's basketball teams had never competed. They were in different systems.[5]

By the early 21st century, CDA and Inverness High School sponsored joint Homecoming weekends and events.[6]

In 1987[7] the school's parent teacher organization published The Sharecropper, a collection of area recipes.[8]

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Contacts." Central Delta Academy. Retrieved on August 17, 2010. Tripod version: "Driving Directions to Central Delta Academy From the north: Central Delta is located approximately 8 miles south of Indianola on Highway 49. Take the first Inverness sign and follow old Highway 49 until you see the large white two-story building on your left, which will be CDA. From the south: Central Delta is located approximately 15 miles north of Belzoni, MS, on Highway 49. Take the first Inverness sign and follow old Highway 49 until you see the large white two-story building on your left, which will be CDA."
  2. ↑ Moye, J. Todd. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. UNC Press Books, 2004. 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.
  3. ↑ "Home." Central Delta Academy. Retrieved on August 17, 2010.
  4. ↑ Ayres, Jeff. "Selling off to the highest bidder." The Clarion Ledger. May 23, 2010. Business C5. Retrieved on August 17, 2010. "The company will auction off the Central Delta Academy building in Inverness next month."
  5. ↑ Dunbar, Anthony P. Delta Time: A Journey Through Mississippi. Pantheon Books, 1990. 181. Retrieved from Google Books on March 2, 2011. "It is sad that the Central Delta Academy Lady Tigers and the Inverness Hawkettes women's basketball teams never compete head-on, though both represent the same little cotton-gin town and seem equally endowed with grace and height." ISBN 0-394-57163-0, ISBN 978-0-394-57163-8.
  6. ↑ "News & Events." Central Delta Academy, 2003, Retrieved on March 2, 2011.
  7. ↑ Gerard C. Wertkin; Lee Kogan (2004). Encyclopedia of American Folk Art. Taylor & Francis. p. 321. ISBN 978-0-415-92986-8. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  8. ↑ Zanger, Mark. The American Ethnic Cookbook for Students. ABC-CLIO, 2001. 18. Retrieved from Google Books on March 2, 2011. "The recipe appeared in The Share-Cropper, published by the Central Delta Academy PTO in Inverness, Mississippi, and was reprinted in A Gracious Plenty. Recipes and Recollections from the American South by John T. Edge." ISBN 1-57356-345-5, ISBN 978-1-57356-345-1.

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