Eufaula, Alabama

====School integration====

In July 1968 the [[United States Department of Justice]] filed suit against 76 Alabama school districts, including that of Eufaula, in an attempt to bring them into compliance with ''Brown v. Board of Education''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Area Schools Named in Suit|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=uqofAAAAIBAJ&pg=673%2C1792349|work=Gadsden Times|date=July 15, 1968}}</ref>

Schools in Eufaula remained segregated by race until the fall of 1966 and the first blacks graduated with the senior class of 1967.<ref name=first>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ytwiAAAAIBAJ&pg=4209%2C5989077|title=No Incidents at School's First Integrated Prom|work=The Tuscaloosa News|date=May 22, 1991}}</ref>  After integration began the school stopped sponsoring social events, such as [[prom]]s<ref name=first/> although unofficial segregated events were still held.  By 1990, students at [[Eufaula High School (Eufaula, Alabama)|Eufaula High School]] had begun pressuring school officials to allow them to hold integrated proms, and the first such was held in 1991 without incident.<ref name=first/>