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‘New tradition’ for Georgia students: Their first racially integrated prom

As Quanesha Wallace remembers, it was around this time last year when the idea first came up at Wilcox County High School, CNN reports. It was nothing big, just chatter about prom, school, what comes next, what they’d change. If things were different, someone said, we’d all go to the same prom. For as long as anyone could remember, students in their South Georgia community went to separate proms, and homecoming dances, too. White students from Wilcox County attend one. Black students, another. They’re private events organized by parents and students, not the school district. Schools have long been desegregated, but in Wilcox County, the dances never changed…

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