Segregated Prom

I really wasn't aware that this sort of thing still happened. Since 1971, when schools were integrated, parents in Montgomery County have been throwing racially segregated proms. Surrounding areas have made a change and now have school funded integrated proms, but Montgomery County parents are refusing to budge.

Students of both races say that interracial friendships are common at Montgomery County High School. Black and white students also date one another, though often out of sight of judgmental parents. “Most of the students do want to have a prom together,” says Terra Fountain, a white 18-year-old who graduated from Montgomery County High School last year and is now living with her black boyfriend. “But it’s the white parents who say no. … They’re like, if you’re going with the black people, I’m not going to pay for it.”

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