Fifty Years Later: Georgia Students Stage First Integrated Prom
STUDENTS at a Georgia, USA, school – black and white – can now dance together. This is not news from forty years back – it’s from today!
This insight into American life from 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.”
‘It’s been a dream of all of ours,’ Senior Class President James Hall said.
‘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.
The theme of the first official prom: Breakaway.
‘It was fitting already because we are breaking away from the past traditions here in Turner County School,’ Hall said.”
Progress indeed for the leaders of the free world…
Posted: 24th, April 2007 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
