Gen Xers: Did your HS have a “freshman slave” auction?

[Anonymous]

Class of 88, North Carolina, God no. Can't imagine that happening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Class of 88, North Carolina, God no. Can't imagine that happening.

Another 80s NC and an absolutely NOT.

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What the actual F?
I went to a deep Southern school and there's no way in heck that we could ever get away with that. It was pounded into us how awful slavery was and how awful our fore-parents were from benefiting from slavery.

(even though only 1% of people owned slaves)

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.

[Anonymous]

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==

[Anonymous]

Class of '86. Yes, we had one at my overseas DoDDs school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

What state Alabama or Mississippi?