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ANDERSON COUNTY, TENNESSEE, USA – This corner of Tennessee has two important stops for those interested in American history and especially African American history.
The Green McAddo Cultural Center in Clinton commemorates the “Clinton 12,” twelve African American high school students who changed history. While these brave students may have faded from the general public’s consciousness, they made huge headlines in August of 1956 when they were the first to desegregate a state-supported high school in the south.
The center, housed in a 1950s era school that once served as the Green McAdoo elementary school for the area’s young black children, tells the dramatic story from the standpoint of both the legal precedents that paved the way for desegregation, and the personal stories of the people involved in the civil rights struggle. Mst compelling are the stories of the individual twelve students themselves. Following these people’s lives, from their history making days as the Clinton 12, the events of that school year, and those in the years that followed, brings them and these important events to life in a way a history book cannot match.
Be sure to spend a little time in the Epilogues Room to take a short travel through time while watching the CBS broadcast of See It Now, entitled Clinton and the Law, narrated and produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly, in January 1957, and a short sequel from CBS Reports which aired nationally in 1962.
Wheat Community African Burial Ground
For a powerfully moving memorial to the roots of America’s civil rights struggle, visit the Wheat Community African Burial Ground, a small cemetery near the East Tennessee Technology Park.
One of the largest slave cemeteries in East Tennessee, over 90 unmarked graves from the 1850s occupy this space, believed to be part of Gallaner-Stone Plantation, (later known as the Wheat Community), along with a beautiful monument to those who gave their lives in bondage.
Many come here to pay respects and many of the graves are adorned with small offerings – coins, food, and written prayers, messages and wishes giving this sacred place an appropriately eerie feeling.
Text from the Monument at the Wheat Community African Burial Ground
This cemetery and memorial is dedicated to the memory of these Africans who were in America in bondage, rather than by choice and lived, worked, and died in bondage in the Wheat Community.
When I [can] Read My Title Clear To Mansions In The Skies, I’ll Bid Farewell To Every Fear, And Wipe My Weeping Eyes.
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
The Green McAdoo Cultural Center is located at 101 School St. in Clinton, Tennessee. 37717. Phone 865-463-6500 or click to www.greenmcadoo.org.
The Wheat Community African Burial Ground is located on the east side of Oak Ridge highway near the East Tennessee Technology Park.
For more information about visiting Oak Ridge, visit the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau website at www.OakRidgeVisitor.com.
For more information on visiting Anderson County, Tennessee, visit their tourism council's website at www.YallCome.org.
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The Green McAddo Cultural Center in Clinton commemorates the “Clinton 12,” twelve African American high school students who changed history. While these brave students may have faded from the general public’s consciousness, they made huge headlines in August of 1956 when they were the first to desegregate a state-supported high school in the south.
The center, housed in a 1950s era school that once served as the Green McAdoo elementary school for the area’s young black children, tells the dramatic story from the standpoint of both the legal precedents that paved the way for desegregation, and the personal stories of the people involved in the civil rights struggle. Mst compelling are the stories of the individual twelve students themselves. Following these people’s lives, from their history making days as the Clinton 12, the events of that school year, and those in the years that followed, brings them and these important events to life in a way a history book cannot match.
Be sure to spend a little time in the Epilogues Room to take a short travel through time while watching the CBS broadcast of See It Now, entitled Clinton and the Law, narrated and produced by Edward R. Murrow and Fred Friendly, in January 1957, and a short sequel from CBS Reports which aired nationally in 1962.
Wheat Community African Burial Ground For a powerfully moving memorial to the roots of America’s civil rights struggle, visit the Wheat Community African Burial Ground, a small cemetery near the East Tennessee Technology Park.
One of the largest slave cemeteries in East Tennessee, over 90 unmarked graves from the 1850s occupy this space, believed to be part of Gallaner-Stone Plantation, (later known as the Wheat Community), along with a beautiful monument to those who gave their lives in bondage.
Many come here to pay respects and many of the graves are adorned with small offerings – coins, food, and written prayers, messages and wishes giving this sacred place an appropriately eerie feeling.
Text from the Monument at the Wheat Community African Burial Ground
This cemetery and memorial is dedicated to the memory of these Africans who were in America in bondage, rather than by choice and lived, worked, and died in bondage in the Wheat Community.
When I [can] Read My Title Clear To Mansions In The Skies, I’ll Bid Farewell To Every Fear, And Wipe My Weeping Eyes.
Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
Practicalities
The Green McAdoo Cultural Center is located at 101 School St. in Clinton, Tennessee. 37717. Phone 865-463-6500 or click to www.greenmcadoo.org.
The Wheat Community African Burial Ground is located on the east side of Oak Ridge highway near the East Tennessee Technology Park.
For more information about visiting Oak Ridge, visit the Oak Ridge Convention and Visitors Bureau website at www.OakRidgeVisitor.com.
For more information on visiting Anderson County, Tennessee, visit their tourism council's website at www.YallCome.org.
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