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On Point | Podcast

'A most tolerant little town': The forgotten story of desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In 1956, a federal judge ordered the town of Clinton, Tennessee to desegregate its high school. The unrest that followed tore the town apart. Rachel Louise Martin and Jo Ann Allen Boyce join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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That's a central high school, a little rock Arkansas.

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Troops which for nearly three weeks line the sidewalk here

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in front of the high school under orders to keep the college students out

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have been replaced now from their orders to comply with the law,

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which means let the Negro students in if they come in.

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On September 25th, 1957,

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nine black students were finally able to first step foot

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