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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.
Inspired by the true story of an African American teenager who shook up a small town where high school proms had been racially segregated for decades. Amid the protests of the community and with the help of a newspaper reporter who returns to her hometown to cover the story, the two women are able to reverse decades of racist tradition and make history, at least for one night.
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
National Cinema Day, an annual event in which movie theater tickets are heavily discounted, is evolving in 2025 with expanded programming that won’t confine the festivities to one day. Retitled ...
Here is the schedule for this year's proms (in alphabetical order): Bermudian Springs: May 4 at the Eisenhower Hotel and Conference Center Biglerville: May 3 at The Lodges at Gettysburg
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.
Historically segregated African-American schools in the United States (3 C, 16 P) S. ... Segregated prom; Segregation academy; The Shame of the Nation; Sibley Commission;
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