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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.
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. [1] [2]
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. Her struggles brought world-wide attention on her ...
Lincoln School today is a public K-8 institution that feeds into Central High. But the trophy case sitting past the lobby and pictures hanging in the hall keep history on display.
The Blackwell School, originally constructed in 1909, was a segregated elementary and junior high school for Latino students in Marfa, Texas. After passage of the Blackwell School National ...
Created Date: 8/30/2012 4:52:52 PM
Their fellow students at Kings High School in Kings Mill, Ohio, voted the couple prom king and queen on April 17. Annie Wise and Riley Loudermilk, both 18, have known each other since third grade ...