Mareshia Rucker
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Mareshia Rucker
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When Mareshia Rucker was a high school senior in 2013 at Wilcox County High School in Georgia, USA, she led efforts to get her high school to hold a single, racially integrated, senior prom.
Previously her high school had only allowed students to attend racially segregated parties. Her struggles brought world-wide attention on her school, and on Rucker, personally.
Rucker was interviewed by Amy Goodman on National Public Radio on April 27, 2013.
Rucker disputed assertions by local politicians th
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