Clinton High School (Clinton, Tennessee)
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Clinton High School Dragon
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Clinton, Tennessee United States |
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| Coordinates | 36°05′40″N 84°08′40″W / 36.09448°N 84.14456°WCoordinates: 36°05′40″N 84°08′40″W / 36.09448°N 84.14456°W |
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| Type | Comprehensive Public High School |
| Established | 1903 |
| Principal | Caleb Tipton |
| Faculty | 99 |
| Enrollment | 1,116 |
| Campus type | Medium Town |
| Color(s) | Orange & Black |
| Mascot | Dragons |
| Website | www |
Clinton High School (CHS), in Clinton, Tennessee, is the Anderson County, Tennessee, high school that serves students living in and near Clinton, Oliver Springs, and Claxton.
1903 Clinton High School was built on the current location of Clinton middle School.
1916–17 The first basketball teams were formed at Clinton High School (Men's & Women's).
1923–24 The first football team was organized at Clinton High School.
1927 A new high school building, which consolidated CHS with several county schools, was opened at the current location of Clinton Middle School.
1954 Clinton High School first accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS).
1956 See Integration below.
1958 On Sunday, October 5, the school was blown apart by three massive explosions.
1958–60 CHS students were transported to Oak Ridge to continue classes while the school was rebuilt.
1963 Plans were presented to consolidate several elementary schools, create 2 junior high schools, and construct a new Clinton Senior High School for grades 10-12.
1968–69 Clinton Senior High School was completed.
1977 Vocational programs were offered to CSHS students as the Anderson County Center of Occupational Development was opened.
1989 With the new addition of a library, science labs, a cafeteria, and several new classrooms, the 9th grade was moved to CSHS which again became Clinton High School. (Clinton Junior High School and Norwood Junior High School became middle schools.)
Following the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, federal judge Robert Taylor ordered Clinton High School to desegregate with "all deliberate speed" in the fall of 1956. The integration of Clinton High School was forced to be first among Tennessee public schools. Anti-integration campaigners from inside and outside Clinton protested the decision to integrate the high school (Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol LVI). They were inspired by New Jersey white supremacist John Kasper and Asa Carter both of whom spoke publicly in Clinton on September 1, 1956 against the decision to integrate the high school (Tennessee Historical Quarterly, Vol LVI). After violence was narrowly averted on the lawn of the Anderson County Courthouse on September 1, National Guard troops were called into the city for two months to keep order. The protests resulted in a jury trial for criminal contempt, of which seven of ten defendants were convicted.
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