A high school in a small-town in Mississippi prepares for its first integrated senior prom.A high school in a small-town in Mississippi prepares for its first integrated senior prom.A high school in a small-town in Mississippi prepares for its first integrated senior prom.
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Morgan Freeman: One of the things that surprised me most was that they have separate proms and separate homecoming queens- one white, one black. How stupid can that be?
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Can we eradicate hatred, racism and bullying?
I remember my own high school prom back in 1975. I rented a tuxedo and put down a balance on a limousine. It was night to remember but with a month and a half to go it was not to be. I was dumped and alone with deposits that were non-refundable. Trivial by comparison as we shift to this documentary of a different nature. Distinguished veteran actor Morgan Freeman narrates this experiment in reintegration. Freeman has an idea to subsidize a high prom in his home town of Charleston, Mississippi where the black population is the vast majority. Interviews by students of both races are downright fascinating. The vitriol hatred from the white parents seems to be the cause to this on-going segregation. Narrator Freeman exclaims that, "One thing that surprised me most was that they have separate proms and separate homecoming queens -one white, one black. How stupid can that be?" This was not Freeman's first attempt at bringing the students of Charleston together. The school board after much consideration agreed to go ahead with the plan in revising it's racial policies and have the integrated prom. The documentary chronologically interviews white students, black students, black and white couples expressing their feelings and ridicule by their peers in anticipation of that special evening. I personally felt I was watching something out of the nineteenth century, post civil war south with the racial comments made. With all the modern conveniences and inventions mankind has produced racial prejudice remains to be stagnate. Were all human being here , Black, Brown, Yellow, White. Thought provoking I only wonder what's next. Gay's only proms? Transgender only proms?
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By what name was Prom Night in Mississippi (2009) officially released in Canada in English?
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