Category talk:Segregation academies

Not all started in the 50s and on
Some schools which are routinely called seg academies were started before Brown v. Board but then played the same role in avoiding integration that the purposefully started ones did. I changed the lead to reflect this. Is it usual to have prose in categories like this? I don't mind, but I can't recall having seen it before.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:07, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've seen short descriptions before; thought it would be useful in this case, but I'm certainly not wedded to the idea. Thanks, by the way, for your work on this and related topics; I'm a bit abashed to say I didn't know these existed until I saw your edit on Liberty Christian Academy. PRRfan (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
 * That's a bit of a weird one!  I had no idea that Falwell was involved in segregationalism until I read it last night.  But he came to his senses so quickly, only two years.  I believe that that's the only case I've seen where a segregated private school voluntarily integrated itself without the IRS coercing it.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 14:21, 7 September 2012 (UTC)

Criteria
What is the criteria for a school to be listed as a segregation academy? The main ones I've seen so far are that the school is a private school and was founded between 1950 and 1979. That's a pretty broad criteria and may end up labelling schools that most folks would not consider to be segreagtion schools. Also as somone posted above, there may be some schools that were founded before of after that time frame. There may be also some schools that were founded in that time frame that have nothing to do with segregation. I think we need to be careful with placing this label on schools that may or may not be involved in segregation. Sf46 (talk) 19:07, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't add the category until I have a source saying explicitly that the school was used to allow white children to avoid attending desegregated schools. Do you have any examples of schools in the category that don't have a source in the article saying that they were segregation academies?  I notice from your input on the talk page of False River Academy that you seem to think that the source must use the words "segregation academy".  That's not the case, but the source must certainly say that the school was used to allow white children to avoid attending desegregated schools.&mdash; alf laylah wa laylah (talk) 00:06, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

What about schools designed to attract African American students?
There have been some schools in the USA founded with the plan to attract African American students. The motivations may be somewhat different, but the intended results are still single race student bodies, or at least one race being statistically very dominant. One example would be Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy in Texas. Should such schools be included in this category? It makes me stop and think. Pete unseth (talk) 19:14, 6 December 2016 (UTC)