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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.
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.
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Anderson argued such activities interfered with the students' studies. After Peach County schools were formally integrated, parents continued to sponsor private segregated proms for students. This changed in 1990 after parents convinced the school board to rescind the policy and allow for a single, school sanctioned prom. [7] [8] New School ...
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"Complex Relations: An African-American Attorney Navigates Jim Crow Atlanta". Georgia Historical Quarterly, Winter 2007, vol. 91, issue 4, 453–477. Rabinowitz, Howard N. Race Relations in the Urban South, 1856–1890 (1978) Smith, J. Douglas. Managing: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
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