The Green McAdoo Cultural Center is located in on a hill overlooking Clinton Tennessee. Historically The Green McAdoo Cultural Center was actually the Green McAdoo School. It was not just any school it was a segregated grade school for black students. Twelve students who once attended the Green McAdoo School would become the center of a turning point in the Civil-Rights Movement. The students were not alone in this for the most part. The entire Clinton community came together. All of this can be seen once you enter the old school house which is now a museum dedicated to preserving the story of the first integrated school in the United Sates South.
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McSwain, Maurice Soles, Robert Thacker, and Regina Turner. The first day of class they were escorted by a white minister named Paul Turner. Turner later was beaten for escorting the students. He preached on Sunday with a black eye and his sermon riled up the congregation in support of the twelve students. Outside agitators were brought in by the KKK John Kasper and Asa Carter among them. Their purpose was to stop the integrations of the schools. What they did was terrorize the town’s people and try to enforce mob rule. This escalated two years after the school was irrigated, with the blowing up of the high school.
When you first enter the Green McAdoo Cultural Center you are in a class room. Old desks lined up in row just as you would expect them to be if you were attending a class. Immediately you are greeted by a volunteer, who shows you a short but informative video about the history of the integration of the Clinton High School. The building consists of three rooms, two of which consists of videos and the middle room a time line of the integration of the school. If you have any question the volunteer will explain all about the history of the town. Mr. Cleo Ellis can tell you stories that you will not hear anywhere
After the Supreme Court ruling in the Brown v. Board of Education which ruled that separate but …show more content…
McSwain, Maurice Soles, Robert Thacker, and Regina Turner. The first day of class they were escorted by a white minister named Paul Turner. Turner later was beaten for escorting the students. He preached on Sunday with a black eye and his sermon riled up the congregation in support of the twelve students. Outside agitators were brought in by the KKK John Kasper and Asa Carter among them. Their purpose was to stop the integrations of the schools. What they did was terrorize the town’s people and try to enforce mob rule. This escalated two years after the school was irrigated, with the blowing up of the high school.
When you first enter the Green McAdoo Cultural Center you are in a class room. Old desks lined up in row just as you would expect them to be if you were attending a class. Immediately you are greeted by a volunteer, who shows you a short but informative video about the history of the integration of the Clinton High School. The building consists of three rooms, two of which consists of videos and the middle room a time line of the integration of the school. If you have any question the volunteer will explain all about the history of the town. Mr. Cleo Ellis can tell you stories that you will not hear anywhere