Hulond Humphries (born May 1937) is a part-time hog farmer[1] and former principal at Randolph County High School who caused a national controversy in 1994 and 1995 after he threatened to cancel the high school's prom due to fears about interracial dating.
In 1974, the Randolph County Board of Education was sued by the parents of two children who Humphries allegedly expelled from school without due process.
When several students answered yes, Humphries threatened to cancel the event, saying "How would that look at a prom, a bunch of mixed couples?".
[5] The junior class president, ReVonda Bowen, who has a black mother and a white father, reportedly asked Humphries what his order would require her to do.
Humphries had long opposed interracial dating, as had some of his teachers; Humphries reportedly threatened to tell students' parents that they were dating interracially, as well as telling white girls that "no white boy would have them" after they had been with a black boy.
[1] Eventually, Humphries was placed on paid leave by the local school board; he was also sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of Bowen's parents.
[6] Some white parents in the district, however, approved of Humphries' views; as a result, he was reinstated as principal two weeks after the incident.