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The documentary is about the senior prom in Charleston, Mississippi. The high school in Charleston (a community of 2,100 residents) has an average of 80 graduates per year, and up until 2008 had separate, segregated proms for Black students and White students, [3] despite Mississippi fully integrating their schools in 1970. [5]
Charleston, Mississippi: In 1997, actor Morgan Freeman offered to fund a racially integrated prom in Charleston, Mississippi, where he lives. The offer was turned down. In 2007, he made the offer again and it was accepted, and the school held its first integrated prom in 2008, profiled in the documentary Prom Night in Mississippi. [15]
In March 2010, the Itawamba County School District board made international news after it decided to cancel the prom for Itawamba Agricultural High School because 18-year-old lesbian student Constance McMillen, from Fulton, Mississippi, had requested permission to take a same-sex date to the event, and to wear a tuxedo.
The school held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008, [7] which was the subject of the 2008 HBO documentary Prom Night in Mississippi. The documentary focused on the school and the efforts to have a mixed prom instead of segregated proms, with one for whites and the other for blacks. In 2010, the graduation rate was 68.8%.
Only North Carolina (787) and Mississippi (557) had more. Photographer Andrew Feiler, who is fascinated by Rosenwald’s story, has taken photos of more than 100 Rosenwald schools and plans to be ...
Charleston High School held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008. [10] 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 proms. Strider Academy, near the city, closed ...
The Blackwell School, originally constructed in 1909, was a segregated elementary and junior high school for Latino students in Marfa, Texas. After passage of the Blackwell School National ...
The Mississippi Delta region. The Mississippi Delta region has had the most segregated schools—and for the longest time—of any part of the United States.As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi, was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American.