Some in Wilcox County say it's just an old habit that's hard to break.

CNN: Segregated prom tradition yields to unity

Yet, it appears that Wilcox County High School in Wilcox County, Georgia has yet to get the memo.

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When the story erupted on TV and social media, Wilcox County became a symbol of race relations stuck in the past.

CNN: Segregated prom tradition yields to unity

Decades earlier, Wilcox County alumni remembered, there was no prom at all.

CNN: Segregated prom tradition yields to unity

To be clear, the separate proms are likely completely legal as Wilcox County High School is uninvolved with the financing and staging of the proms.

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Mareshia and her friends bucked 40 years of local customs this month by organizing their own integrated prom, a formal dance open to Wilcox County's white, black, Latino and Asian high school students.

CNN: Segregated prom tradition yields to unity

Mary Rose Wilcox, who is Latina and the only Democrat on the Maricopa County board of supervisors, remembers a quite different sheriff.

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