The Integration of Clinton High School

EPISODE · Jul 23, 2016 · 12 MIN

The Integration of Clinton High School

from Stories of Appalachia · host Steve Gilly, Rod Mullins

After the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education ruling by the Supreme Court, schools began preparing to integrate across the South, with the first school scheduled to be Clinton High School in the East Tennessee town of Clinton. The end of segregation brought protests, threats, beatings, and a bombing that destroyed the high school. On […]

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