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
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.
John Kasper
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Frederick John Kasper Jr. was an American politician, Ku Klux Klan member, and a segregationist who took a militant stand against racial integration during the civil rights movement.
Clinton High School (Clinton, Tennessee)
…campaigners from inside and outside Clinton protested the decision to integrate the school. They were encouraged by New Jersey white supremacist John Kasper and Asa Carter both of whom spoke publicly in Clinton on September 1, 1956, against integration. After violence was narrowly averted on the lawn of the…
Kasper in 1957