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Is this a headline from one of those old-timey newspapers from the 70s? Please tell me that it is.
Breaking news! Parts of the deep south have entered the 20th century!! Give them another hundred years and they'll enter the 21st! We hope...
I like how it was the students who got this ball rolling, shaming the knuckle-dragging adults and organizing a "one prom for all" last year. Show the old fossils that their 19th century ideas are no longer relevant or wanted.
Is this a headline from one of those old-timey newspapers from the 70s? Please tell me that it is.
The article was from last year. If I recall properly, the school did not have a Prom.
Blacks had a private party, Whites had a private Party and in 2013 the students decided to combine the 2.
It was not the school or the state but a joint effort by the students.
Blacks had kept their Private Prom just as closed as Whites prior to 2013.
'Prom Night in Mississippi' and 'For One Night' gives a good look into what the mindset is in some of these small rural towns in the deep south. Some of these towns have also been known to hold racially segregated reunions too.
The article was from last year. If I recall properly, the school did not have a Prom.
Blacks had a private party, Whites had a private Party and in 2013 the students decided to combine the 2.
It was not the school or the state but a joint effort by the students.
Blacks had kept their Private Prom just as closed as Whites prior to 2013.
I give the most credit to the students who said enough is enough and decided to combine the two. They are truly the ones who deserve accolades.
I would rather see the kids wait 50 year to integrate than having it forced on them. Isn't this a crazy idea? Integrate because you want, not because you're being forced into it.
I would rather see the kids wait 50 year to integrate than having it forced on them. Isn't this a crazy idea? Integrate because you want, not because you're being forced into it.
If we had waited for the white majority South to want to integrate schools, we might still be waiting. Sometimes you have to force change.
I am glad the kids came together on their own, for this, though.
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