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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.
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.
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.
Films which prominently feature a prom (short for "promenade dance"), or where the plot revolves around the preparations or aftermath of a prom. The typical setting of the film genre is an American secondary school ("high school"), though real-life proms may take place in other educational institutions or different countries. The chronological ...
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.
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A glaring mistake in Disney Plus’s new film Prom Pact has left viewers “horrified”.. The streamer’s latest movie stars Peyton Elizabeth Lee as high school senior Mandy Yang. In the film ...