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  2. Segregated prom - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Mareshia Rucker - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Wilcox County High School - Wikipedia

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    In 2013, students organized the first private racially integrated prom, [2] and the school district announced that it would consider holding a school-sponsored integrated prom in 2014. [4] The first school-organized prom was held in 2014, and the school has held a prom each year since.

  5. Turner County High School - Wikipedia

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    Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. However, Turner County High School did not integrate until 1970. Nonetheless, the school continued to host segregated proms until 2007. [5] In 2021, 70% of students voted in favor of changing the school's mascot to the Titan, citing ties to Confederate ideology. [6] [7]

  6. Proms are the latest superspreader events - AOL

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    A group of high school students pose together ahead of their prom on May 20, 2022, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) (Andrew Lichtenstein via Getty Images)

  7. For One Night - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Vigo high schools conducting modified proms this year

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    May 2—Proms have returned for Vigo County School Corp. high school students this year. Terre Haute South had its prom Saturday, West Vigo's is May 8 and Terre Haute North's is May 21. "For a ...

  9. Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in ...

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    Rosenwald schools in Georgia (U.S. state) (6 P) Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.