A diferencia de muchos adolescentes estadounidenses, Marisha Rucker,

no pensaba a menudo en su prom.

Esa gran baile de fin de año de la escuela secundaria que es tan importante

para muchos adolescentes de los Estados Unidos.

Some girls in high school dream about going to prom, but that wasn't me.

I always expected to go to prom, but I didn't start seriously thinking about it until my junior year.

In 2013, Marisha was in her last year of secundaria, or her junior year.

One day, she, along with her group of white and black friends,

started talking about her prom.

I was in a history class, talking to some of my friends about prom dresses,

and that's when we realized we weren't going to have our proms together.

There were two different proms.

The black students went to one prom, and the white students went to another one.

It was the first time we really thought about that.

But my friends and I decided we were not going to do that.

So, I went home and talked to my mom.

She said, if you want to have prom with all of your friends, that's fine.

But you need to be prepared for consequences.

I was very determined, though.

I said, we are going to have prom together.

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