Did you know that black Americans weren’t allowed to attend prom for decades? The prom was the poor working man’s answer to the debutante ball and even after schools were intergrated they refused to allow black students to attend prom, making them private all white events, what happened? Black people started their own, two different proms, two different cultures built around this coming of age moment and two different styles of doing it. Black prom traditions are akin to a quincenera or bat mitv

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