The Green McAdoo School in

Clinton, Tennessee Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, Tennessee, United States. Clinton is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area. Its population was 10,056 at the 2020 census. History Prehistoric Native American habitation was n ...

, was the community's segregated elementary school for

African American African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...

children until 1965. The school was completed in 1935, and designed by architect Frank O. Barber of Knoxville. It is now a

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and is listed on the

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. The Green McAdoo School deteriorated after its closure, but was reopened as a museum and

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in 2006. Federal grants and local government funding helped to pay for renovations to the building. A set of life-size bronze statues of the "Clinton 12," the 12 African American students who attended Clinton High School in the fall of 1956 when the

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was

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under court order, is displayed outside the school's front entrance. In 2018, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center became a part of the

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system.

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Green McAdoo Cultural Center website
{{Authority control School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Tennessee Museums in Anderson County, Tennessee History museums in Tennessee African-American history of Tennessee African-American museums in Tennessee Historically segregated African-American schools in Tennessee Buildings and structures in Anderson County, Tennessee Defunct schools in Tennessee School buildings completed in 1935 Museums established in 2006 2006 establishments in Tennessee National Register of Historic Places in Anderson County, Tennessee 1935 establishments in Tennessee

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