Clinton, Tennessee
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Clinton is a city in and the county seat of Anderson County, Tennessee. Clinton is included in the Knoxville metropolitan area. Its population was 10,056 at the 2020 census.
Main Street in Downtown Clinton
Magnet Mills factory site and water tower in 2016
Downtown Clinton
African-American students entering Clinton High School, December 1956
Clinton High School in Clinton, Tennessee, is the Anderson County, Tennessee, high school that serves students living in and near Clinton, Oliver Springs, and Claxton. As of 2025, the student populati
Clinton, Tennessee
…Kingston and contained roughly 58,900 acres (23,800 ha). In 1956, Clinton gained national attention when segregationists opposed the desegregation of Clinton High School. Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, a court order required the desegregation of the high school…
These life-size bronze statues of the twelve black students who integrated Clinton High School in 1956 stand outside the former Green McAdoo School in Clinton.