Class of 88, North Carolina, God no. Can't imagine that happening. |
Another 80s NC and an absolutely NOT. |
Class of '94, small town in Maine. We had a slave auction, it's featured in our yearbook. Hoping they don't still do it! |
Class of 92 in central Virginia, and yes we had a slave auction as a fundraiser. I had forgotten about that. It felt wrong at the time. Unbelievable. |
Not that I recall, but people dressed in blackface for homecoming, and some wore KKK robes. There was also a drag beauty contest. I graduated in 1992. It was terrible. |
Older millennial here and yes, in college, the Minority Student Association held a 'freshman girl' auction. It was like a date auction, but the comparison still stands and it was very distasteful.
A friend asked me to do it with her. It wasn't required. I wished I had told her no, but I was 18, so I went along with it. |
Isn't this a myth? Nearly 25% of White southerners owned slaves: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/statistics-slaves-and-slaveholdings The 1% is about owning a lot of slaves. |
So there’s a Bethesda history social media account. They posted photos from a HS year book of a “Slave Day” auction for charity at Walter Johnson HS back in the 1960s. Per the caption this was a common charity fundraiser at MoCo schools 😳
https://www.instagram.com/p/C4LbK_FuQAL/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== |
Class of '86. Yes, we had one at my overseas DoDDs school. |
What state Alabama or Mississippi? |