News, Students attend school's first integrated prom. (high school, parties, county)

[JD59]

ASHBURN, Georgia (CNN) -- Students of Turner County High School started what they hope will become a new tradition: Black and white students attended the prom together for the first time on Saturday.

In previous years, parents had organized private, segregated dances for students of the school in rural Ashburn, Georgia, 160 miles south of Atlanta.

"Whites always come to this one and blacks always go to this one," said Lacey Adkinson, a 14-year-old freshman at the school of 455 students -- 55 percent black, 43 percent white. (Watch students arrive at dance )

"It's always been a tradition since my daddy was in school to have the segregated ones, and this year we're finally getting to try something new," she said. (Audio slide show: A town breaks with tradition)

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/turner.prom/index.html

[jkmewright]

Wow, uh what year is this? For that matter, what century?

I can hear it now. Two grannies sitting on the porch:

Granny 1 "Law law. Imagene, did you hear about them there dances? The ones whur them coloreds are acomin'? What is this world comin' too?"

Granny 2 "Before you know it Myrtle, them younguns'll be abreedin'. We shuda kept um apart."

Granny 1 "Oh mercy in heavun, I liked ta died when I heard that 'un. Next it'll be them gays coming to the dances."

Granny 2 "Yessuh, the Lord sure musta turned his back fer just a second and this un slipped by him."

[Figment 07]

"We didn't want to put emphasis on integrated blacks and whites coming together. We just wanted to put emphasis on this was our first school prom," Principal Chad Stone said.

A little background (and it's also mentioned briefly in the article) ...that particular south Georgia high school never actually had an official school prom before this one. Instead, private parties and dances were hosted each year by parents of individual students.

Now there is finally one annual, official, school-organized event. And of course, all students welcomed to attend the school's prom.

[baby_firefly]

how is this news
that happend some time ago i saw the movie on lifetime
with raven from the disney channel like the end of last year