Jordan,
08-06-2009, 02:09 PM
About now, high-school seniors everywhere slip into a glorious sort of limbo. Waiting out the final weeks of the school year, they begin rightfully to revel in the shared thrill of moving on. It is no different in south-central Georgia’s Montgomery County, made up of a few small towns set between fields of wire grass and sweet onion. The music is turned up. Homework languishes. The future looms large. But for the 54 students in the class of 2009 at Montgomery County High School, so, too, does the past. On May 1 — a balmy Friday evening — the white students held their senior prom. And the following night — a balmy Saturday — the black students had theirs.
More .. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?_r=3
More .. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24prom-t.html?_r=3