Reinstating Principal Who Banned Interracial Dating Brings Boycott
Dozens of black students boycotted classes Monday to protest the reinstatement of a white principal who threatened to cancel the high school prom if blacks and whites dated each other.
Joining the boycott was student ReVonda Bowen, who filed a civil rights lawsuit against Hulond Humphries for allegedly telling her she was “a mistake” because her father is white and her mother is black.
The boycott was launched by civil rights groups as the 680-student Randolph County High School, which is about 38% black, reopened after a weeklong spring break. Humphries also returned after being suspended March 14. The school board voted, 4 to 2, Thursday to reinstate him. One white member resigned in protest.
Humphries, 55, who has been principal for 25 years, declined to comment, but he told one newspaper reporter, “I’d like for you to leave town.”
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