The First Desegregation
The Clinton Twelve: Table of Contents
- Desegregation In The South
- Why Has Clinton's History Making Integration Been Ignored?
- ~ The Twelve ~
- Tennessee & The Civil Rights Movement
- Great Stuff on Amazon
- The Fiftieth Anniversary of Desegregation
- Clinton and the Law: A Study in Desegregation
- Clinton High School was the first desegregated school in the South.
- Comments On "The Clinton Twelve"
Desegregation In The South
- The Story of Green McAdoo and the 1956 Desegregation of Clinton Tennessee
- The Story of Desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee
- The Clinton Twelve Documentary Trailer
- A trailer for the documentary The Clinton Twelve, which was written and directed by Keith McDaniel and narrated by James Earl Jones.
The DVD can be purchased through The Secret City Store. - The Poet Bookseller & The Clinton Riots
- How a segregationist agitator from the North came to Clinton, Tennessee to further his own ends by sowing racial discord.
- TN Encyclopedia: CLINTON DESEGREGATION CRISIS
- 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.
Why Has Clinton's History Making Integration Been Ignored?
Whatever the reason for lack of publicity for the Clinton Twelve, I believe that the credit for being the first should be returned to the twelve children who actually took those first dangerous steps into a previously all-white school.
~ The Twelve ~
The students who desegregated the South.
- JoAnn Crozier Allen
- Bobby Cain
- Anna Theresser Caswell
- Minnie Ann Dickie
- Gail Ann Epps
- Ronald Gordon Hayden
- William R. Latham
- Alvah J. McSwain
- Maurice Soles
- Robert Thacker
- Regina Turner
- Alfred Williams
Tennessee & The Civil Rights Movement
- Tennessee's Civil Rights Movement
- HIGH SCHOOL HISTORY
Part Nine: Tennessee's Civil Rights Movement - Highlander Research and Education Center - History - 1953-1961: The Civil Rights Movement
- 1953-1961: The Civil Rights Movement & The Citizenship Schools
Great Stuff on Amazon
The Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation
The Nashville Sit-in Story: Songs and Scenes of Nashville Lunch Counter Desegregation (by the Sit-In Participants)
We Shall Overcome, The Lunch Counter Incident, I'm Going to Sit at the Welcome Table, The Story of the Sit-In Movement / "We Shall Not Be Moved", Jail Sequence / "You Better Leave Segregation Alone" / "Your Dog Loves My Dog" / "They Go Wild Over Me", Court Room Scene, "I Hope We'll Meet Again" / "Moving On" / The Trial, Reason for the Sit-in Movement Interviews, Remarks by Reverend C. Tindell Vivien, Scene on Mayor's Steps, Victory Meeting
Amazon Price: $8.91 (as of 12/29/2009) 
The Fiftieth Anniversary of Desegregation
Clinton and the Law: A Study in Desegregation
"See It Now" with Edward R. Murrow
The Best of See It Now
Includes ""See It Now" episode
Clinton and the Law: A Study in Desegregation. 1957.
Amazon Price: $18.49 (as of 12/29/2009)
Clinton High School was the first desegregated school in the South.
The Clinton Twelve integrated the high school in Clinton, Tennessee in the fall of 1956, a full year before The Little Rock Nine entered the previously all-white Central High of Little Rock, Arkansas.
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