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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.
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.
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Mount Vernon is a city in, and the county seat of, Montgomery County, Georgia, United States. The population was 1,900 at the 2020 census, [2] down from 2,451 in 2010. It is home to Brewton–Parker College.
When an 18-year-old nonbinary high school senior was refused entry to prom for wearing a suit, a local small business stepped in to help. (Photos: Mary Craven; B Hayes/Instagram)
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.
In the wake of the 2023 prom season, teens are posting pictures and videos of their celebratory nights, sparking an online debate on "over-the-top" proms.