[Bgs-list] Georgia High School Students Organize First Integrated Prom

[CHARLES BAKER]

MACON, GA (WGXA/CNN) – Students at Wilcox County High School in south
Georgia share classrooms and sports fields, but they don't share the
same dances. Some students are aiming to change that.

"We're embarrassed, it's embarrassing, yeah it's kind of
embarrassing," said a group of students who want to change the policy.

...

"There's a white prom and then we have our integrated prom," said Bloodworth.

If any race other than Caucasian tries to attend the white prom,
Bloodworth said they "would probably have the police come out there
and escort them off the premises."

That was the case just last year as a biracial student was turned away
by police.

It's been that way for as long as anyone can remember, and it doesn't
stop at prom - homecoming is also segregated.


http://www.wafb.com/story/21866345/georgia-high-school-students-organize-first-integrated-prom


You know the sad thing? I grew up in Mississippi, graduated high
school in 1984, and while we didn't have segregated proms in my town,
Jackson. However, if I recall correctly I think we still had a set
each of white and black homecoming kings and queens. And maybe up
until 1982 had a black and white Mr. and Miss Callaway ( the name of
my high school ). I'll have to check the yearbook about that to be
sure. I'm almost positive that "tradition" or "custom" carried on
until at least 1982.

And in my maternal grandparents town, little old Yazoo City, MS, I
think that kind of thing was going on well into the 90s if not the
2000s. :-(

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