Mississippi Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith came under fire over the weekend for attending one of the state's so-called segregation academies in the 1970s.
About 200,000 students moved to private schools between the 1960s and 1980s immediately after a series of Supreme Court decisions that began with that 1954 case. Two-thirds of those students came from six states: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina, according to the Southern Education Foundation.
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