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"Morgan Freeman was disappointed to learn that his local high school in Charleston, Miss., still held separate proms, one for black students, one for white. So he offered to pay for a single prom that both could attend.

That was 1997. It took 11 years for the school to take Freeman up on his offer.

Director Paul Saltzman's "Prom Night in Mississippi," premiering Saturday as part of the world documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival, chronicles the growing pains Charleston went through last year as the community prepared for its first racially integrated senior prom.

The move came 54 years after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown vs. Board of Education case that struck down school segregation and more than 30 years after black students began attending Charleston High School, which previously had been all-white.

Freeman learned about the separate proms while talking with the senior class in 1997. Students were willing when Freeman said he would pay for an integrated prom, but the school board and parents ignored his offer.

"It's kind of disheartening," Freeman said. "In the little town we live in - this is a really small town - I don't know how you can live in such a small place and try to be separate."

Toronto filmmaker Saltzman met Freeman in 2006 on a return visit to Mississippi, where he had worked for a couple of months doing voter registration during the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s. Saltzman later interviewed Freeman for another documentary he's working on about his journey back to the South.

Once he learned of Freeman's offer to desegregate Charleston's proms, Saltzman felt there was another film to be told.

"I said to him without thinking, `Is the offer still good?' And he was a little taken aback, and he went, `Oh, OK,'" Saltzman said. "I thought, if you're willing to put the offer back on the table and we follow that, it's a story about young people and racial attitudes that hopefully would make other young people walk out of a darkened theater and think about their own attitudes and their own beliefs."

With permission from school officials, Saltzman filmed Freeman as he made the initial pitch to the administration and met with the senior class, which greeted the proposal enthusiastically.

Saltzman and his wife, producer Patricia Aquino, spent about four months filming in Charleston during the buildup to the prom, interviewing students, sitting in on planning meetings and chatting up the handful of parents willing to talk.

Many adults refused to be interviewed, and the filmmakers soon learned that amid preparations for the integrated prom, a separate, white-only prom had been organized.

The heart of the film is candid interviews with black and white Charleston students, who speak passionately about the racism that lingers in their town. The filmmakers follow a core of students, among them a black boy and white girl who date despite her father's objections, a white couple whose friendship with a black youth causes them grief, and a black girl who suspects racism cost her the class valedictorian honor.

Saltzman was not allowed to film the white prom, which he estimates a couple of dozen students attended. The integrated prom was far larger and stands as a hopeful climax to the film as black and white students mingle exuberantly.

Freeman said the prom cost him about $17,000, which he said was "money very well spent" that hopefully will lead to integrated proms from now on."


http://www.wral.com/entertainment/story/4332672/

i guess it's [old], but it's news to me; either way, WTH

1/17/2009 12:40:58 AM

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Bold some key points or take that shit to soap box.

we don't read here in chit chat
I'm Big Business and i approved this message.

1/17/2009 12:41:41 AM

FykalJpn
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don't read it then, i don't give a fuck

1/17/2009 12:42:43 AM

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My high school did a white and black version of all the superlatives, homecoming king/queen, etc. Our prom was integrated, but we still had a black homecoming king/queen and a white one. That was also 1997.

1/17/2009 1:03:56 AM

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^ My high school had a majority and minority homecoming king/queen and that was in Raleigh

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"Many adults refused to be interviewed, and the filmmakers soon learned that amid preparations for the integrated prom, a separate, white-only prom had been organized."


wtf

1/17/2009 3:15:22 AM

goalielax
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really? there are racists in the deep south?


huh

1/17/2009 3:27:44 AM

wolfpackgrrr
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^ It is surprising that a school would still be engaged in segregating a school function.

1/17/2009 3:33:40 AM

khcadwal
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i am not shocked. i am also not shocked that this occurred in mississippi.

1/17/2009 3:48:29 AM

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I wish the fuckers that organized the white-only prom on the side would just hurry up and die... age faster or just stand in front of trains, I don't give a fuck which.

Also, the kids who actually agree with the aforementioned parents... none of my preferred solutions would be considered humane by any stretch of the imagination.

[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 4:42 AM. Reason : .]

1/17/2009 4:41:01 AM

SkiSalomon
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wolfpackgrrr, which school did you go to that had that?

1/17/2009 5:48:13 AM

FykalJpn
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the seperate king/queen thing, i maaaybe could see b/c the likelihood of a black couple being chosen at a mostly white school is pretty much nil.

but, do you bar the black kids from being in the 'main' competition? what happens to the asian, hispanic, and multiracial kids--do they get lumped in with the black kids or do they self-identify?

[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 6:26 AM. Reason : it still reeks of some backwoods jim crow bullshit...]

1/17/2009 6:21:44 AM

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i grew up in NC, in a rural area, and lived for 2 years in the FL panhandle (lower alabama), and I've never even heard of any of this stuff. that blows my mind.

1/17/2009 8:29:36 AM

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hello and welcome to four decades ago

1/17/2009 8:32:09 AM

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this is the way that things should be

gg local high school in Charleston, Miss.

1/17/2009 8:34:07 AM

LunaK
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ridiculous...


i just thought that their political system was ass-backwards....it's just everything

1/17/2009 8:47:56 AM

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"which school did you go to that had that?"


Leesville.

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"the seperate king/queen thing, i maaaybe could see b/c the likelihood of a black couple being chosen at a mostly white school is pretty much nil.

but, do you bar the black kids from being in the 'main' competition? what happens to the asian, hispanic, and multiracial kids--do they get lumped in with the black kids or do they self-identify?"


Yeah, that was how my school justified it. I feel like it was usually an Asian chick who won the minority category at my school

1/17/2009 8:58:54 AM

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I came up in a rural ass area of NC in the mid 90s, and this bullshit is foreign to me.

fucking embarrassing. It's no wonder the deep south is the laughing stock of civilized society.

[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 9:47 AM. Reason : adsfdffdd]

1/17/2009 9:47:24 AM

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Kinda funny that this wouldn't make headlines more often. I've even got relatives in Mississippi and I've never heard of this until now.

Fucking disgraceful.

1/17/2009 9:48:18 AM

WillemJoel
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dead honest, if I were black in Mississippi, there'd be some "organization" going on.

it's motherfucking

TWO THOUSAND NINE

1/17/2009 9:51:10 AM

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"the seperate king/queen thing, i maaaybe could see b/c the likelihood of a black couple being chosen at a mostly white school is pretty much nil."


At my school white people would have been the minority. I remember one girl whose mom was white and her dad was black; they asked her to pick which category she should be in.

1/17/2009 12:24:03 PM

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1/17/2009 1:54:44 PM

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lol, some of you people wouldn't make it two weeks living down here if something like that pisses you off

[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 2:07 PM. Reason : blacks still know their place in these parts, they don't cause trouble]

1/17/2009 2:07:28 PM

twoozles
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correct me if im wrong but isn't that illegal

1/17/2009 2:16:00 PM

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no

1/17/2009 2:17:37 PM

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"mississippi is retarded "


1/17/2009 2:17:52 PM

twoozles
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how so?^^

1/17/2009 2:18:30 PM

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the whole story isnt told here, a lot of the schools around here hold private proms, its not a school sponsored event in any way, the students organize and fund it, and hold it offsite, very common around here, because of that reason


it's also not unusual for clubs and bars in the bigger cities in this area to charge a $1 cover charge for whites and $100 for blacks, is it lillegal? no, does it work? for the most part, yes


[Edited on January 17, 2009 at 2:24 PM. Reason : there is no area in nc this rural, i'm talkin about deliverance country down here]

1/17/2009 2:20:26 PM

twoozles
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did the school not sponsor it because they could not afford it or for the reason that they want to hold separate events?

1/17/2009 2:22:05 PM

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both

1/17/2009 2:23:07 PM

Dentaldamn
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wait what?

1/17/2009 2:49:48 PM

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