Green McAdoo School

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Green McAdoo School
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
View of the front of the Green McAdoo Cultural Center, including the statues of the "Clinton 12" next to the steps that lead to the entrance.
Location:	101 School St. Clinton, Tennessee
Added to NRHP:	November 8, 2005
NRHP Reference#:	05001218

The Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, was the community's segregated elementary school for African American children until 1965.^[1] It is now a museum and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The Green McAdoo School deteriorated after its closure, but was reopened as a museum and cultural center in 2006. Federal grants and local government funding helped to pay for renovations to the building. A set of life-size bronze statues of the "Clinton 12," the 12 African American students who attended Clinton High School in the fall of 1956 when the high school was desegregated under court order, is displayed outside the school's front entrance.^[2]

[edit] See also

Clinton High School, Tennessee

[edit] References

^ The Story of Desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee, Green McAdoo Cultural Center website (accessed November 25, 2007)
^ Fowler, Bob. ""The Ultimate Risk"", Knoxville News-Sentinel, Scripps, 2006-02-26, pp. B1, B4, B5. Retrieved on 2006-05-21.