Trinity Presbyterian School
Trinity Presbyterian School is a Christian day school serving grades K3-12th located in Montgomery, Alabama. It was founded in 1970
History
The school was founded by Trinity Presbyterian Church, an all-white church that resisted efforts for blacks to join the congregation.
Trinity School opened in a local church in 1970 with 200 students and 15 instructors, as Montgomery county public schools were being racially integrated. Some historians have described the school as a segregation academy. As of 1986, only two of the schools 645 students were black.
References
- ^ "Private School Universe Survey". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
- ^ "About - Trinity Presbyterian School". www.trinitywildcats.com. Retrieved October 11, 2020.
- ^ Glass, Mary (February 18, 1970). "Private Schools Expect 4,000 More Enrollment". Alabama Journal. Montgomery, Alabama – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Haynes, Stephen (2013). The last segregated hour: the Memphis kneel-ins and the campaign for Southern church desegregation. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 9780199875306. OCLC 810933165.
- ^ Bagley, Joseph (2018). The Politics of White Rights: race, justice, and integrating Alabama's schools. Athens: University of Georgia Press. p. 227. ISBN 9780820354187. OCLC 1065537539.
Most whites who remained in the city's increasingly tiny, affluent white enclaves enrolled their children in one of its large segregation academies, each of which accepted a token number of black students—Montgomery Academy, no black students among 819; St James School, 49 out of 996; and Trinity Presbyterian, just 1 of 906.
- ^ Wojnor, Rose (February 23, 1986). "Better? Private schools offer alternative in education". Montgomery Advertiser. p. B1.
