Saturday, 27 April 2013

In Rural Georgia, Students Step Up to Offer Integrated Prom

Like all black students at Wilcox County High School, she was not invited. The rural county in central Georgia is one of the last pockets in the country with racially segregated proms.
<P></P>“These are people I see in class every day,” said Ms. Rucker, a senior, who hid in a parked car outside the prom. “What’s wrong with dancing with me, just because I have more pigment?”
<P></P>But this weekend, after decades of separate proms for white students and black

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