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The "Clinton 12," were a group of black teenagers who integrated a public high school in Clinton, Tennessee, in 1956 after the Brown v Board of Education decision.

The twelve students were Jo Ann Boyce (née Allen), Bobby Cain, Anna Theresser Caswell, Minnie Ann Jones (née Dickey), Gail Ann Upton (née Epps), Ronald Hayden, William Latham, Alvah J. Lambert (née McSwain), Maurice Soles, Robert Thacker, Regina Smith (née Turner), and Alfred Williams.

The twelve walked to school with one another and family members and were met with mobs of angry people who did not want them to attend Clinton High School.

On October 5, 1958, Clinton High School was destroyed by explosives.