I'm fairly certain this was still going on well into the 80s (separate "most popular" awards for blacks and whites, etc.) Was the decision to stop it done locally? Do you remember it being newsworthy that this was being stopped?

Well I didn't go to a racist high school, soooo....

I went to HS at Waco Midway. All of the Blacks went to Waco High with the poor Whites and all of the Mexicans went to University with some Blacks and the really poor Whites. So, we didn't have any minority celebration in Waco.

Neither did I, but I know it was common. Just curious if the decision to end it was the school district saying "hey it's 1986, this whole separate white prom king/queen and black prom king/queen thing is pretty awkward" or if it was mandated to end at a higher state level.

This sounds like the kind of thing high schools would try to bring back now, because people seem to have forgotten that the whole separate but equal thing was dumb.

We had two black families at my high school. Does that mean we were segregated?

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I'm fairly certain this was still going on well into the 80s (separate "most popular" awards for blacks and whites, etc.) Was the decision to stop it done locally? Do you remember it being newsworthy that this was being stopped?

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Dang, did you go to Jasper HS or something?

This was definitely NOT a thing at mine and that was in the EARLY 80's.

But like the other poster said, we only had about 4 black kids in my class, so how could they have separate awards and maybe that makes me the racist for going to a segregated school.

I graduated high school in Texas in 1974. I have never heard of this.

I've never heard of such a thing.

I graduated from a small South Texas town in 1984 which was about half/half White/Hispanic with a single Indian (dot, not feather) family and no African Americans.

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I'm fairly certain this was still going on well into the 80s (separate "most popular" awards for blacks and whites, etc.) Was the decision to stop it done locally? Do you remember it being newsworthy that this was being stopped?

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What makes you "fairly certain"? You provided zero examples of it going on in the 80s and many people have said they were in high school in the 70s/80s//90s and have never heard of such a thing.

I have never heard or seen this and if it did exist, it's despicable.

Seriously what highschool did you go to? I went to a very diverse school and we never had separate awards like that based on race. I mean we all knew who was going to win best athlete, but us white kids still technically had a shot.

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I'm fairly certain this was still going on well into the 80s (separate "most popular" awards for blacks and whites, etc.) Was the decision to stop it done locally? Do you remember it being newsworthy that this was being stopped?

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Don't know about yearbooks but I was at an award presentation at Allen for top merit and AP scholars and they had the general awards anyone could get and also separate awards of recognition for top black scholars and top Hispanic scholars. If I was Asian I'd be pissed for not being included in the minorities get extra love pat on the back wink/wink good job overcoming your inherit disabilities club.

If you were Asian you'd probably just laugh because you knew you they would all be working for you someday.

Made it all the way to the bottom of the page without anyone asking for clarification...

what exactly is a "segregated yearbook senior superlative"?

Sorry, I haven't had a chance to respond all day. I am not old enough to have witnessed this. I do remember seeing a yearbook from the 1960s and thinking how crazy it was that they had different "most likely to succeed" awards for black and white students. Then I seem to remember seeing another yearbook from like 1982 (I don't remember what school) where it was still going on. I assumed that this was pretty standard practice for large schools following integration in the 60s and was curious as to when it ended. Glad to see that this apparently didn't exist in most places.

Here's a link describing it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregated_prom

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In addition to segregated proms, some schools have also elected black and white homecoming kings and queens, class officers, and even awarded separate black and white superlatives such as "Most Likely To Succeed."[3][6][8] School sponsored separate events, including separate homecoming queens or superlatives, have been deemed to violate federal law by the United States Department of Justice.[9]

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Charleston, Mississippi held its first integrated prom in 2008.

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I graduated from a small South Texas town in 1984 which was about half/half White/Hispanic with a single Indian (dot, not feather) family and no African Americans.

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Dad, we have to talk...

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I choose not to acknowledge people different from me so I have no clue what you are talking about.

Funny how we used to have water fountains for whites and water fountains for blacks, and today??? No one drinks from water fountains eww!