Malena Amusa
Segregated Prom finds Racial Harmony
The Associated Press reported yesterday:
Ashburn, Georgia - For the first time, the faces of students at the Turner County High School prom were both white and black.Each year, in spite of integration, the school’s white students had raised money for their own unofficial prom and black students did the same to throw their own separate party, an annual ritual that divided the southern Georgia peanut-farming county anew each spring.
That all changed Saturday as horse-drawn carriages and stretch limousines carried young couples around the downtown streets to a single prom.
Little by little…
Posted at 11:20 AM, Apr 24, 2007 in News | Permalink | View Comments
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This would seem a small step, but a significant one., The acceptance by high school age young people of a new idea and obviously attempting to storm the bastion of racism, and in the deep south at that, is to be applauded. I don't know if it is a school where only young people who can afford to go via horse drawn coach or stretch limo, if so, it is still a move in the right direction, or 'right sense' as Gramsci might say. My interest would be if it catches on in public schools where armed guards and surveillance cameras prevail. Perhaps some of those schools 'don't do proms'.
Barry Garneau
Posted by: Barry Garneau | April 26, 2007 10:04 AM