Green McAdoo Cultural Center
Clinton High School was the first public school in the south to desegregate. If you were a black 8th grade student graduating from Green McAdoo Grade School into high school before 1956, you were bused to Fulton High School, 29 miles away. Instead of attending the white high school, which was 1,500 feet away from the grade school. Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was unconstitutional in May of 1954, Federal Judge Taylor ordered the Anderson County School Board to end segregation at Clinton High School by the fall of 1956. The weekend after 12 African American students register to attend Clinton High School, white pro-segregationist arrived in Clinton, Tennessee, holding rallies, picketing, burning crosses.... This is only a VERY brief description of events surrounding the desegregation of Clinton High School. Green McAdoo Cultural Center, the former black grade school, stands today in honor of the 12 student and the citizens of Clinton that supported them, black and white. Visit the center to find out more. There is also a great article at
Green McAdoo Cultural Center becomes part of tn state museum system
Green McAdoo Cultural Center becomes part of tn state museum system
The Clinton 12: The Clinton County Desegregation Crisis (1947-1958)
A series of events from 1947 to 1958 placed the Civil Rights story of Clinton, the seat of Anderson County, on the national stage as one of the starting points in the modern Civil Rights movement. With the end of World War II, local African American citizens began to demand more equal school facilities, noting that their two-classroom building that had no cafeteria, no gymnasium, no indoor restrooms, and no high-school classes. In reaction, local officials approved an expansion to Clinton Colored School, adding a cafeteria and interior restrooms, in 1947-48. They also agreed to change the school name to honor African American resident Green L. McAdoo, an army veteran who had been one of famed “Buffalo Soldiers” in the late-nineteenth-century West. In 1896, at about forty years of age, Green McAdoo returned home from the army and was employed as custodian of the Anderson County Courthouse for twenty-five years.
Next, African Americans challenged in federal courts the lack of black high-school education in Anderson County. In August 1950, four black youths who were eligible to attend Clinton High School attempted to enroll but were rejected by school officials. In December 1950 a group of citizens filed a lawsuit, which became known as McSwain et al. v. County Board of Education of Anderson County, Tennessee. The lawsuit received its hearing on February 13, 1952, in the U.S. District Court of Knoxville, with Judge Robert L. Taylor presiding. The local citizens were represented by a powerful group of activist African American attorneys. Z. Alexander Looby and Avon N. Williams of Nashville would later gain fame from their role in the Nashville Civil Rights struggle and student movement of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Carl A. Cowan of Knoxville was a locally respected African American attorney. But most important was the presence of Thurgood Marshall of the Legal Defense Fund of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in New York City. Marshall’s involvement signified that the NAACP considered the Clinton proceedings to be of national significance, and that the case had the potential of being yet another building block in the NAACP’s patient legal strategy of undermining segregation.
In his ruling of April 1952, Judge Taylor denied the lawsuit and upheld the position of the county school board. Taylor rejected the argument that it violated the separate but equal doctrine for African Americans to attend high school in another county, and he was not convinced that the African American families were terribly inconvenienced by separate schools. Two years later, however, the federal legal landscape totally changed when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that segregation was inherently unequal and struck down the separate but equal doctrine. Two-and-a-half weeks later, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, reversed Taylor’s 1952 ruling and returned McSwain et al. v. County Board of Education to federal district court for a new decision.
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[Wikipedia] Green McAdoo School
The Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, was the community's segregated elementary school for African American children until 1965. The school was completed in 1935, and designed by Frank Barber of the firm, Barber & McMurry. It is now a museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Green McAdoo School deteriorated after its closure, but was reopened as a museum and cultural center in 2006. Federal grants and local government funding helped to pay for renovations to the building. A set of life-size bronze statues of the Clinton 12, the 12 African American students who attended Clinton High School in the fall of 1956 when the high school was desegregated under court order, is displayed outside the school's front entrance.
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Comfort Inn Clinton - Clinton Hotels, Tennessee
Comfort Inn Clinton 2 Stars Hotel in Clinton, Tennessee Within US Travel Directory Quality Inn-Clinton is located off Interstate 75. This hotel is situated close to area attractions like Chilhowee Park, Norris Dam State Park, the Museum of Appalachia, American Museum of Science and Energy, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center, Norris Lake and River Ridge Farm. The Thompson-Boling Arena and the University of Tennessee are within 32.2 km of the hotel. Many local industrial parks are within minutes of the hotel.Visitors will enjoy a wide variety of outdoor recreational activities in the area, including fly fishing, boating, four wheeling, golfing, hay rides and horseback riding. The hotel is a great stop off point to and from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.There is antique shopping on Market Street in downtown Clinton. Family-owned restaurants like Golden Girls and Harrison's Grill and Bar are located nearby.Special features and amenities include free wireless high-speed Internet access, free newspaper, free local calls, an exercise room and a seasonal outdoor pool.Enjoy free hot breakfast featuring eggs, meat, yogurt, fresh fruit, cereal and more, including your choice of hot waffle flavors.Business travelers will appreciate access to copy and fax service, a meeting room for small events and business functions and competitive corporate rates.
All rooms have coffee makers, irons, ironing boards and cable television with HBO and Nickelodeon. In addition to standard amenities, some rooms have microwaves and refrigerators. For special occasions, rooms with whirlpool bathtubs are perfect.Laundry facilities are located on the property for guest convenience.
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Clinton athletes now have a league of their own.
Elementary students in the Clinton City School system used to have to look elsewhere if they wanted to join a sports team. Now,they have their own league thanks to their community.
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Chopper 9: Hamilton County Sheriff's bomb unit investigates Clinton County van fire
The Hamilton County and Clinton County sheriff's offices were inspecting a burnt-out van for potential incendiary devices on Wednesday morning at Midland Tire at state Route 28 and U.S. 68. Viewer-submitted photos show the van on fire at about 4 a.m. Wednesday. Bomb crews and firefighters cleared the scene and reopened the intersection at about 8:45 a.m.
Commemorative walk to honor Clinton 12 on Monday
More than six decades ago, 12 students braved threats of violence to attend high school in Clinton, Tennessee. 10News reporter Leslie Ackerson is in Clinton with more on how the walk will honor the students who paved the way for change.
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63 years later: Honoring the Clinton 12
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