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

[Carl Sharperson]

Charles, Wow, Thanks for sharing. Carl
 > Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 14:47:44 -0400
> From: chbaker at clemson.edu
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> Subject: [Bgs-list] Georgia High School Students Organize First Integrated	Prom
> 
> 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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