PROJECT DESCRIPTION.
The Green McAdoo School, built in the late 1930’s,
became the center of national attention in 1956 when twelve African-American
students from that school were integrated into Clinton High School becoming
the first public school in the South to be desegregated. The school, renovated
into the Green McAdoo Cultural Center, will be a monument to the individuals
and events that shaped Clinton’s history as well as America’s.
OPPORTUNITIES.
- The Center can be promoted as the 1st step in the development plan for Clinton
- This will be the first and only center dedicated in its entirety to education in Anderson County with an emphasis on the desegregation events that took place in Clinton in the late 1950’s
- The walking tour from the school to downtown is the same walk that the twelve students took in August of 1956. This walk can be enhanced as a part of the walks and trails improvements thus connecting the school site to the waterfront development
- The Cultural Center, slated to be placed on the National Historic Register, will become an attraction for visitors, students and educators from across East Tennessee and beyond
- The project has already received a $750,000 appropriation
from the federal government to use for construction and $55,000 from
both the City and County to use for design and operational expenses
