 The town's de facto segregation, banned by the 1954 landmark United States Supreme Court case of "Brown v. Board of Education," was finally addressed, with the white high school converted to a junior high school while Gentry High School was integrated.So-called "white flight" followed, with an overwhelming percentage of the white students of Indianola enrolled at Indianola Academy, a segregation academy which, as a private school, was not subject to federally mandated desegregation.A great degree of segregation has largely continued over the subsequent decades.