{"id":26736,"date":"2014-09-25T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T04:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=26736"},"modified":"2025-01-14T11:08:34","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T16:08:34","slug":"u-s-girls-who-organized-integrated-prom-to-see-winnipeg-museum-exhibit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/25\/u-s-girls-who-organized-integrated-prom-to-see-winnipeg-museum-exhibit\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. girls who organized integrated prom to see Winnipeg museum exhibit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WINNIPEG\u2014A 19-year-old who last year helped organize her Georgia high school\u2019s first racially integrated prom will come to Winnipeg to see her dress in an exhibit at the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights.<\/p>\n

Mareshia Rucker and three other students at Wilcox County High School in Rochelle, Ga., made international headlines when they decided to buck their school\u2019s longstanding tradition of separate proms for black and white students.<\/p>\n

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All four grew up as best friends; Rucker and Quanesha Wallace are black while Stephanie Sinnot and Keela Bloodworth are white.<\/p>\n

Their story caught the eye of Matthew McRae, the researcher and curator for the \u201cInspiring Change\u201d exhibit at the newly opened museum.<\/p>\n

He was looking for something to illustrate the civil rights struggle and his first thoughts were of Martin Luther King Jr., but the museum wanted a more current display.<\/p>\n

He travelled to Georgia to speak with Rucker, her friends and her family for an oral history and came away convinced she would be perfect for an exhibit about inspiring change.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer desire to make the world a better place is really strong,\u201d said McRae. \u201cNot only could she envision that better world, but she could also decide to take action in it.<\/p>\n

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Rucker was giddy with excitement Tuesday to learn that an online fundraising campaign would allow her, Wallace and Sinnot to\u00a0travel\u00a0to the museum along with Rucker\u2019s mother and grandmother, adding it is \u201csurreal\u201d to think that her dress is going to be in a museum.<\/p>\n

She said racism \u201cstill runs really deep\u201d in Georgia, noting that while about 200 students attended the integrated prom, many others still chose to attend an invitation-only prom for whites.<\/p>\n

Still, she said she was blown away with the success of the party and the international attention it drew.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was phenomenal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was so happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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