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Rachel Louise Martin, "A Most Tolerant Little Town"
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Jul 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
A year before Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was desegregated, 12 Black students in Clinton, Tennessee, enrolled, by court mandate, in Clinton High School's 1956 Fall semester. Historian Rachel Louise Martin, author of "A Most Tolerant Little Town," talks about the experiences of the students who desegregated the first school in the south following Brown v. Board of Education and the violent reaction by the extremist White Citizens Council and others in town who championed a segregated America.
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Released:
Jul 31, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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