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A segregated prom refers to the practice of United States high schools, generally located in the Deep South, of holding racially segregated proms for white and black students. The practice spread after these schools were integrated, and persists in a few rural places to the present day.
When Mareshia Rucker was a high school senior in 2013 at Wilcox County High School in Georgia, USA, she led efforts to get her high school to hold a single, racially integrated, senior prom. [1] [2] [3] Previously her high school had only allowed students to attend racially segregated parties.
Prom Night in Mississippi is a 2009 Canadian-American documentary film written and directed by Paul Saltzman. The documentary follows a group of 2008 Charleston High School high school seniors in Charleston, Mississippi as they prepare for their senior prom , the first racially integrated prom in Charleston history.
"Prom was coupled with several activities — travel trips [for] spring sports — right before prom," Weiss says, adding that she's "not sure if it was the combination of the two, but we had ...
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A decade after the Lemon Grove case, more than 80% of the state's Mexican American students still attended segregated schools. It took another lawsuit by parents in Westminster to end the practice ...
The 2010 Itawamba County School District prom controversy took place in Itawamba County, Mississippi, and began when lesbian student Constance McMillen was refused permission to take her girlfriend to the Itawamba County Agricultural High School prom. As a result of a lawsuit brought against the school, the school canceled the prom.