{"id":8170,"date":"2021-11-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&#038;p=8170"},"modified":"2022-01-07T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T13:09:31","slug":"photo-finish-the-clinton-12-go-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2021\/11\/23\/photo-finish-the-clinton-12-go-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo finish: The \u2018Clinton 12\u2019 go to school"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"has-text-color has-background\" style=\"background-color:#000000;color:#ffffff\"><strong>PHOTO FINISH<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<h5>ARRESTING IMAGES FROM THE ANNALS OF THE PAST<\/h5>\n\n<h4 class=\"article-subhead\"><strong>The \u2018Clinton 12\u2019 go to school <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-ccp-secondary-color\">1956<\/span><\/strong><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n<figure class=\"no-tts wp-block-image alignwide size-large article-in-image photo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"691\" src=\"https:\/\/dj9jqhxgw9833.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355-1024x691.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"no-tts wp-image-8836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355-768x518.jpg 768w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355-1536x1036.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2021\/11\/GettyImages_113491355.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p class=\"article-full-body sans-serif\">As white students line the entrance to Clinton High School in Tennessee, a group of 12 African-American boys and girls show remarkable courage as figureheads of integration. The landmark US Supreme Court ruling, <em>Brown v Board of Education <\/em>(1954) had declared racial segregation in schools to be unconstitutional, but many Americans found this a hard decision to accept. When Clinton was court-ordered to desegregate for its 1956-57 academic year, the enrolment of the so-called \u2018Clinton 12\u2019 was met with protests and rising racial tensions, and the students faced harassment and the threat of violence. 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