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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 19, 2021

U.S. Reps. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, and Chuck Fleischmann, R-Chattanooga, have introduced a resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives to honor the bravery and legacy of the “Clinton 12” — the 12 students who desegregated Clinton High School in 1956. The students were among the first in Tennessee to desegregate a public high school and among the first in the south to desegregate any school after the groundbreaking Brown v. Board of Education decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The Tennessee Tribune has more on the effort and the text of the resolution.