Charleston, Mississippi

==Education==
The City of Charleston is served by the [[East Tallahatchie School District]]. Before 1970, a dual system of schools, one for black students and another for whites was maintained. In 1970, the federal courts mandated in ''[[Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education]]'' that the schools be integrated, and the school district adopted a plan by which classrooms remained segregated, but during the course of the school day entire classes of children and teachers were bused between East Tallahatchie High School and [[Allen Carver High School]]. The black students of Allen Carver protested, and the sheriff arrested 125 of them and sent them to the state penitentiary at Parchman. After intervention by the federal [[Community Relations Service]], the students were allowed to reenter school and makeup missed exams. The classrooms were integrated, new elections were held for student government, and some black cheerleaders were added.<ref name="Bolton">{{cite book |last1=Bolton |first1=Charles C |title=[[The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi 1870-1980]]|date=1980 |publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]] |page=186}}</ref><ref name="CRS">{{cite web |author1=Community Relations Service |title=Activities Relating to the Desegregation of Public Schools: Charleston, Mississippi |url=https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED065654.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150425173828/http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED065654.pdf |archive-date=2015-04-25 |url-status=live |accessdate=13 January 2019 |pages=19–20 |date=1972}}</ref>

[[Charleston High School (Mississippi)|Charleston High School]] held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008.<ref>[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91371629 Mississippi School Holds First Interracial Prom]. ''[[The Bryant Park Project]]''. [[National Public Radio]]. 2008-06-11.</ref> This event was the subject of the 2008 [[HBO]] documentary ''[[Prom Night in Mississippi]]''. The documentary focused on Charleston High School and the efforts to have a mixed prom instead of the traditional racially [[segregated prom]]s.

[[Strider Academy]], near the city, closed in 2018.

[[Coahoma Community College]] is the designated community college.<ref>"[http://www.coahomacc.edu/admissions-financial-aid/admissions/general-admissions/student-residency/index Student Residency]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150311064516/http://www.coahomacc.edu/admissions-financial-aid/admissions/general-admissions/student-residency/index Archive]). Coahoma Community College. Retrieved on July 8, 2017. "Out-of-District Resident: A student who does not live within Bolivar, Coahoma, Quitman, Tallahatchie, and Tunica Counties but does live in some other county in Mississippi."</ref>