Bobby Cain, who helped integrate high schools, has died

Bobby Cain helped integrate one of the first high schools in the US South in 1956. Photo: AP PHOTO

Bobby Cain, who helped integrate one of the first high schools in the US South in 1956 as one of the so-called Clinton 12, has died in Nashville at the age of 85.

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Bobby Cain was a senior when he entered the formerly all-white Clinton High School in Tennessee on a court order. He had previously attended a black high school about 32km away in Knoxville and was not happy about leaving his friends to spend his senior year at a new school in a hostile environment.

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