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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.
This is a list of examples of Jim Crow laws, which were state, territorial, and local laws in the United States enacted between 1877 and 1965. Jim Crow laws existed throughout the United States and originated from the Black Codes that were passed from 1865 to 1866 and from before the American Civil War.
So one summer day in 1950, Thomas and kids from Evansville's all-Black Lincoln High School marched to the then-segregated Howell Park, where they were met with racist taunts and flying rocks ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
America's Prom Queen; Anti-prom; The Awesome 80s Prom; B. ... Segregated prom This page was last edited on 20 January 2024, at 19:23 (UTC). Text is available under ...