PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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They attended training workshops at the Highlander Folk School.
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They walked to school together every day.
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They only went places where there were other African Americans.
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They lived next to each other in Tent City.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Clinton 12 were a group of twelve African-American students who integrated the previously all white Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee in 1956. These students were some of the first to participate in desegregation of southern K-12 public schools.
Detailed explanation-2: -*On this date in 1956, the Clinton 12 broke the color barrier in K-12 education in the American South. That day, twelve young Black students walked into history in Clinton, TN. They were the first students to desegregate a state-supported high school in the south.
Detailed explanation-3: -Twelve Black students registered on August 20, 1956. The Clinton 12: Alfred Williams, Alvah Jay McSwain, Anna Theresser Caswell, Bobby Cain, Gail Ann Epps, Maurice Soles, Minnie Ann Dickey, Regina Turner, Robert Thacker, Ronald Gordon Hayden, William Latham, and Jo Ann Allen.
Detailed explanation-4: -An estimated 75 to 100 sticks of dynamite exploded throughout Clinton High School in the early morning of Sunday, October 5, 1958, over two years after the integration of the high school.