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Equal but separate in Lyons
Hispanic, black and white students at Toombs County High School all will hold their own proms.
By DAN CHAPMAN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/10/04
LYONS -- The black kids at Toombs County High School will hold their prom at the National Guard armory next weekend. And the white kids will dance, laugh, reminisce and cry in the same building on May 7.
But what about the Hispanic kids? Which party will the children of the Mexican migrant workers attend?
Neither. They
#39;ll hold their own prom.
In what might be a first for Georgia, students from one high school will attend three separate proms. Toombs County's dubious distinction demonstrates the evolving ar
ith
etic of race in America, where white plus black plus brown doesn't a
dd up to "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
It wasn't supposed to be this way when Yuri Flores bought a $50 ticket to the white prom in February. She returned later that day with a white girlfriend, Jennifer Hart, who also wanted to buy a ticket. Hart says the White Prom Committee girl wanted to know if her date was white, black or Hispanic. Mexican, was the answer.
"She told me that it was a white prom
Equal but separate in Lyons
Hispanic, black and white students at Toombs County High School all will hold their own proms.
By DAN CHAPMAN
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/10/04
LYONS -- The black kids at Toombs County High School will hold their prom at the National Guard armory next weekend. And the white kids will dance, laugh, reminisce and cry in the same building on May 7.
But what about the Hispanic kids? Which party will the children of the Mexican migrant workers attend?
Neither. They
#39;ll hold their own prom.
In what might be a first for Georgia, students from one high school will attend three separate proms. Toombs County's dubious distinction demonstrates the evolving ar
ith
etic of race in America, where white plus black plus brown doesn't a
dd up to "one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
It wasn't supposed to be this way when Yuri Flores bought a $50 ticket to the white prom in February. She returned later that day with a white girlfriend, Jennifer Hart, who also wanted to buy a ticket. Hart says the White Prom Committee girl wanted to know if her date was white, black or Hispanic. Mexican, was the answer.
"She told me that it was a white prom
