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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.
The documentary is about the senior prom in Charleston, Mississippi. The high school in Charleston (a community of 2,100 residents) has an average of 80 graduates per year, and up until 2008 had separate, segregated proms for Black students and White students, [3] despite Mississippi fully integrating their schools in 1970. [5]
May 2—Proms have returned for Vigo County School Corp. high school students this year. Terre Haute South had its prom Saturday, West Vigo's is May 8 and Terre Haute North's is May 21. "For a ...
The town's other high school, East Side had 360 students in 2015, 359 of whom were black. The town had exhausted its legal options. In September 2017, it complied with federal court order and combined the high schools as Cleveland Central High School. Three miles away, Bayou Academy, founded in 1964, is also a single color. Demographic data for ...
A group of high school students pose together ahead of their prom on May 20, 2022, in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo: Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images) (Andrew Lichtenstein via Getty Images)
The principal of a high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has been replaced and multiple employees have been put on administrative leave as the district investigates a drag queen show that took ...
States and school districts did little to reduce segregation, and schools remained almost completely segregated until 1968, after Congressional passage of civil rights legislation. [29] In response to pressures to desegregate in the public school system, some white communities started private segregated schools , but rulings in Green v.
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.