Jo Ann Boyce, a civil rights pioneer and one of the original members of the Clinton 12, has died at 84. According to The Los Angeles Times, Boyce passed away surrounded by family after a long battle ...
Students Jo Ann Allen (later Boyce), left, and Minnie Ann Dickey (later Jones) walk down the steps outside the recently desegregated Clinton High School in Clinton, Tenn., in September 1956. (Don ...
This undated photo provided by Kamlyn Young shows Jo Ann Allen Boyce at her home in Los Angeles. (Kamlyn Young via AP) NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” ...
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Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 who helped integrate Tennessee high schools in 1956, has died
Bobby Cain, who helped integrate one of the first high schools in the South in 1956 as one of the so-called Clinton 12, died Monday in Nashville at the age of 85, according to his nephew J. Kelvin ...
In the fall of 1958, dynamite leveled Clinton High School. No one was injured, but the explosion was a fiery mark of what the town had been through in the two years prior. "They literally had to run a ...
CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12 who desegregated the first public high school in the South, has died at the age of 84, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center ...
CLINTON, Tenn. — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the age of 84. She was one of 12 Black students who enrolled at Clinton High School in August of 1956 after a federal ...
Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, one of the Clinton 12, has died. She was 84 years old. The East Tennessee civil rights figure died Dec. 3, according to Green McAdoo Cultural Center, a museum dedicated to ...
The night before she first walked into Clinton High School in 1956, Jo Ann Allen beamed over her outfit with the excitement of any teenager starting ninth grade. Her grandmother had sewn the dress — ...
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