USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Clinton Desegregation Crisis of 1956 occurred at Clinton High School in Clinton Tennessee. The crisis was the result of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court which called for the desegregation of public schools across the nation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The African American community of Clinton, Tennessee had fought since 1947 for the right to a high school education. Following Brown v. Board of Education, a federal judge ordered Clinton High School to desegregate with “all deliberate speed” in the fall of 1956.

Detailed explanation-3: -Board of Education, Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor ordered the desegregation of Clinton High School in Anderson County. On August 26, 1956, a group of African-American students – the Clinton 12 – attended their first day of class, marking the first integration of a public high school in the South.

Detailed explanation-4: -*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-5: -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.