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Protesters want life, liberty, justice

Posted at 2:00 pm June 14, 2020
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

Civil rights leader Reverend Harold Middlebrook tells Black Lives Matter protesters in Clinton on Thursday, June 11, 2020, that the movement will require more than a march. (Photo by John Huotari/oak Ridge Today)

CLINTON—Civil rights pioneer Anna Theresser Caswell asked people to not hate.

Civil rights leader Reverend Harold Middlebrook told local Black Lives Matters protesters that the movement will require more than a march.

Caswell and Middlebrook were two of about a dozen speakers at a Black Lives Matter march and protest that started at the Clinton football field and ended at Clinton Middle School on Thursday. Several hundred people attended.

Clinton Middle School is where the high school used to be. It was desegregated more than 60 years ago. It’s reported to have been the first high school in the South to desegregate under the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954.

Caswell, 77, was one of the 12 Black teenagers who walked down from Green McAdoo School on Foley Hill and desegregated the old Clinton High School, which had been all-white, on August 27, 1956.

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Filed Under: Community, Community, Front Page News, Government, Police and Fire, Slider, Top Stories Tagged With: Anna Theresser Caswell, Black Lives Matter, Black Lives Matter protest, Brown vs. Board of Education, civil rights, Cleo Ellis, Clinton 12, Clinton High School, Derek Chauvin, desegregation, Emmett Till, Gary Atwater, George Floyd, Green McAdoo School, Harold Middlebrook, James Cain, Ku Klux Klan, Lincoln Barton, Minnie Ann Dickie Jones, Robert Willis, Trevor King, William Caldwell Jr.

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