You might read that title and think, “There’s a place with segregated high school proms? You mean, by race?” Yes, the parents of students who attend a high school in Wilcox County, Georgia, USA have held a white prom and a black prom for years, as well as white and black homecoming dances. If students who are anything but white attend the white prom, police appear to escort them away: “That was the case just last year as a biracial student was turned away by police.”
But this year, four girls have decided to work for a change, and an integrated prom, for reasons including the splendid reason that they are friends who cannot attend prom together. There are many things about this that I like, including their FaceBook page to raise money for holding an integrated prom. I toy with using their efforts as an example in my ethical theory class. Girls, good on you for being motivated by friendship to change one corner of the world.
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Not sure if you are aware, but Paul Saltzman did a documentary called Prom Night in Mississippi (starring Morgan Freeman :D), about a case like this. Various clips from that documentary would be instructive to show in an intro class, I think. Of course, the fact that these girls didn’t need a famous person to prompt the change makes it all the more admirable.
Am I the only person who misread this as “Girls push for desegregation of porn” (and then became a little worried)?
Moral of the story: Yes, I found it that unbelievable that there’s still a prom segregated by race. In 2013. Holy wow.
I recommend the following long story about earlier efforts to desegregate the Wilcox County prom for lots of details about why this is still going on.
Wow, that was interesting and depressing. Thanks for linking to it! Very gratifying to read.
Update today: the prom-organizing girls updated their facebook page today with the news that they reached their fundraising goal! Integrated prom, commence.