(CNN) -- Last week, for the first time in decades, students from Wilcox County, Georgia, attended a school-sponsored prom that was open to all students rather than a private, racially segregated prom.
For decades, Wilcox County High School hadn't hosted a prom for its 400 students. Instead, parents and their children organized private, off-site, racially segregated parties known to most as "white prom" and "black prom." After students planned their own integrated dance last year, school leaders announced they wouldsponsor the school's first prom -- and it would be open to everyone.
"Everything went off without a hitch," Wilcox County schools Superintendent Steve Smith said this week -- just as he expected.
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