The practice spread after these schools were integrated, and persists in a few rural places to the present day.
[2][3][4][5][6] Sometimes a concern over interracial dating was cited as the reason for not holding a single prom.
[9] In 1990, The New York Times reported that 10 counties in Georgia were still holding segregated proms.
[11][12][13] Since 1987, media sources have reported on segregated proms being held in the U.S. states of Alabama,[7][14] Arkansas,[2] Georgia,[4] Louisiana,[3] Mississippi,[15] South Carolina,[16] and Texas.
In the late 1920s, for example, separate proms for blacks and whites are recorded as occurring at Froebel High School in Gary, Indiana.