The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and Repositories

[Clinton 12 oral history collection]

Repository: Green McAdoo Cultural Center

Collection Description (CRHP): This collection includes video recordings, digital audio files, and thirteen transcripts of oral histories of those involved with school desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee. Members of the Clinton 12 are interviewed along with teachers and others involved with the process.

Digital Status: Partial

Extent: 13 transcripts; video recording; audio digital files

Language: English

Related Archival Items: The cultural center also has the papers of a minister and principal involved with the school desegregation crisis as well as other materials, such as diplomas, associated with the students and those involved. It also has a copy of Keith McDaniel's film, The Clinton 12. See the separate database entry for the interviews associated with his film.

Interviewees: Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Bobby Cain, Theresser Caswell, Minnie Ann Dickey Jones, Gail Ann Epps Upton, William Latham, Alvah J. McSwain Lambert, Maurice Soles, Robert Thacker, Regina Turner Smith, Alfred Williams

Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights

Subjects:

African American educators--Tennessee
African American students--Tennessee
African Americans--Civil rights--Tennessee
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
Clinton (Tenn.)
School integration--Tennessee--Clinton
Violence

Genres:

Interviews
Sound recordings
Transcripts
Videorecordings