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Prom Night in Mississippi was screened on Tuesday at the Momentum Conference in San Francisco. It’s a good movie because it is so thought-provoking. After you see it, you and your friends will definitely still be talking about it.
The documentary focused on the town of Charleston, Mississippi. In 1954 Charleston High School was asked to desegregate, but school officials didn't take immediate action. Instead, it took the school another 16 years to open its doors to black students. Years later, there was still one tradition they weren’t willing to change-- prom. The school continued to hold two separate proms, one for black students and another for white students.
Read more at http://www.youthradio.org/news/prom-night-in-mississippi
