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A big part of the initial success of the Day School movement in America (most were founded around 1945-1955) was the Supreme Court ruling desegregating the public schools in 1954.
Contrary to claims that the “The Jews” supported the Civil Rights movement (many did, many did not) when faced with the reality of actually having their kids go to school with Black kids they ran. If a Jewish family couldn’t move to an area with an overwhelmingly White &/or Jewish school district the next option was to send them to the Jewish school.
The schools were more than happy to have the opportunity to teach these kids Torah true Yiddishkeit & perhaps have a positive affect on them. Which they had some successes.