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101 School Street
Clinton, TN 37717

Phone: 865-457-0055

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Green McAdoo Cultural Center

Clinton, TN

On August 27, 1956, twelve young people in Clinton, Tennessee walked into history and changed the world. They were the first students to desegregate a state-supported high school in the South. Clinton High School holds the honor of having the first Black to graduate from a public high school in the South.

The events of that school year and the years that followed are commemorated with the opening of the Green McAdoo Cultural Center in 2006.