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VIRTUAL event
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Book Discussion led by Tulani Grundy-Meadows, Metropolitan Community College Human Relations/Political Science Faculty.
Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project, was sent to a small town in Tennessee, where locals wanted to build a museum to commemorate the events of Sept. 1956, when Clinton High School became the first school in the former Confederacy to undergo court-mandated desegregation. She finds that many in the community did not want to talk, stating “there was a lot of ugliness down at the school that year; best we just move on and forget it”
Years later she goes back to learn what white residents of Clinton didn’t want remembered. She interviewed over 60 townsfolk, including a dozen of the first students to desegregate Clinton High. She weaves together over a dozen perspectives in a kaleidoscopic portrait of a small town living through a tumultuous turning point for America.
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