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Great Smoky Mountains announces virtual events exploring African American history in the park

Great Smoky Mountains announces virtual events exploring African American history in the park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains announces virtual events exploring African American history in the park

Black History

Exhibit honoring Oak Ridge 85 opens at Oak Ridge History Museum

The Oak Ridge 85 were the first to integrate public schools in the southeast in 1955.
History

Museum exhibit opens honoring Oak Ridge 85

The final exhibition honoring the 65th anniversary of the Oak Ridge 85's integration is on display at the Oak Ridge History Museum.
History

Governor Lee honors Oak Ridge 85, Clinton 12 65 years later

The Oak Ridge 85 and Clinton 12 were the first Black students to integrate public schools in the southeast.
Black History

Governor Lee honors Oak Ridge 85, Clinton 12 65 years later

The Oak Ridge 85 and Clinton 12 were the first Black students to integrate public schools in the southeast.
Events

Scarboro Community to host reunion honoring Oak Ridge 85

The reunion honors those 85 students and the Scarboro School teachers that provided inspiration and tools to prepare them for integration in 1955.
History

The Secret in Scarboro: The Oak Ridge 85

In September 1955, 85 Black students from the historic Scarboro community in Oak Ridge became the first to integrate a public school in the southeast.
About Town

Beck Center hosting 8th of August Jubilee to commemorate TN Emancipation Day

Emancipation Day celebrates when Tennessee Military Governor Andrew Johnson freed enslaved people on August 8, 1863.
Education

Oak Ridge hosts ribbon cutting on Scarboro Preschool, honors education leaders

These education leaders were instrumental in the Oak Ridge 85's integration of Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville Junior High in 1955.
Oak Ridge Anderson

Scarboro Preschool opens in Oak Ridge, honoring the Oak Ridge 85

The new preschool will have rooms named after heroes in the Scarboro community, including Fred Brown, who was the first black teacher at Oak Ridge High School.
Black History

History expert celebrates moving bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest to museum, removing from TN Capitol

Renee Kesler, the President of the Beck Cultural Exchange Center, said Nathan Bedford Forrest's statue represents history but should not be celebrated.
Black History

Bust of former KKK leader, Nathan Bedford Forrest, removed from Tennessee capitol

The Building Commission, along with Governor Bill Lee, voted to remove a statue of a Confederate general and early KKK leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the capitol