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Green McAdoo now part of TN State Museum system, U.S. Civil Rights Trail

Posted at 9:31 am August 24, 2018
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Photo via Adventure Anderson County and Explore Oak Ridge

Photo via Adventure Anderson County and Explore Oak Ridge

 

The Green McAdoo Cultural Center in Clinton has become a part of the Tennessee State Museum system in Nashville and the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, according to Adventure Anderson County and Explore Oak Ridge.

It’s a significant announcement, and Green McAdoo invites all those that have aided in their success to celebrate by attending a ribbon cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, August 25, with a pre-celebration reception at 9 a.m. at the Green McAdoo Museum, an electronic newsletter said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Museums, Top Stories Tagged With: American civil rights, civil rights, civil rights movement, Green McAdoo Cultural Center, Green McAdoo Museum, Tennessee State Museum, U.S. Civil Rights Trail

WYSH: Green McAdoo soon to be part of state museum system

Posted at 11:55 am November 3, 2017
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Information from WYSH Radio

The Clinton City Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to transfer the Green McAdoo Cultural Center and Museum to the Tennessee State Museum, a move officials said will ensure that the facility remains open to tell the story of the first black students to attend a previously all-white, Southern, public high school in 1956.

The state budget passed earlier this year included $100,000 to be used exclusively for maintenance and operational expenses at the museum, located on School Street. The museum opened in 2006, on the 50th anniversary of the day in 1956 when 12 black students walked from the former Green McAdoo School down the hill to Clinton High School and into history. Green McAdoo was, at the time, the school for black students in Clinton. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Clinton, Community, Front Page News, Government, State, Top Stories Tagged With: Clinton City Council, Clinton High School, Green McAdoo Cultural Center and Museum, Green McAdoo Cultural Organization, Green McAdoo School, Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee State Museum will have fall bus excursion to Oak Ridge

Posted at 6:33 pm September 25, 2017
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The Oak Ridge History Room (Image courtesy American Museum of Science and Energy)

The Oak Ridge History Room (Image courtesy American Museum of Science and Energy)

 

The Tennessee State Museum will have its fall bus excursion to Oak Ridge on Saturday, November 4. It will be a one-day guided trip to the former “Secret City,” a press release said.

“Local historian Ray Smith will join the bus in Oak Ridge and accompany the group on its stops at the American Museum of Science and Energy, the Y-12 History Center, as well as drive by other locations,” the press release said. “Don’t miss this chance to see the museum before it closes at the end of the year and moves to a new, smaller location.”

Nestled in the foothills of the Appalachians, the area that is now Oak Ridge was created when the U.S. government started buying up more than 50,000 acres of land for one of three major sites for the Manhattan Project, a top-secret federal project to build the world’s first atomic weapons during World War II. (Besides Oak Ridge, the other two major sites were Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico.)

“Even Governor Prentice Cooper didn’t initially know what was going on as he complained about 1,000 Tennessee families losing their homes,” the press release said. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Front Page News, Government, State, Top Stories Tagged With: American Museum of Science and Energy, atomic weapons, fall bus excursion, Manhattan Project, Oak Ridge, Prentice Cooper, Ray Smith, Tennessee State Museum, World War II

Post-war photos from Japan in 1945 opens at AMSE

Posted at 3:49 am February 18, 2013
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Joe O'Donnell and Nagasaki, Japan in 1945

A photo exhibit that opened this month at the American Museum of Science and Energy documents the aftermath of the U.S. bombings in Nagasaki and Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. (Submitted photo)

An exhibit that opened this month at an Oak Ridge museum includes photos documenting the aftermath of U.S. bombing raids in Japan in August 1945 during World War II.

The exhibit at the American Museum of Science and Energy is titled “Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O’Donnell.” It was organized by the Tennessee State Museum from O’Donnell’s original negatives. It opened Feb. 1 and will be on display through July 28.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Arts, Entertainment, Top Stories Tagged With: American Museum of Science and Energy, AMSE, exhibit, Hiroshima, Japan, Japan 1945: Images by U.S. Marine Photographer Joe O'Donnell, Joe O'Donnell, Nagasaki, post-war photos, Tennessee State Museum, U.S. bombing, U.S. Marine Corps, World War II

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