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Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 who helped integrate Tennessee high schools in 1956, has died
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Bobby Cain, who helped integrate one of the first high schools in the South in 1956 as one of the so-called Clinton 12, died Monday in Nashville at the age of 85, according to his nephew J. Kelvin Cain.
Bobby Cain was a senior when he entered the formerly all-white Clinton High School in Tennessee on a court order.
Unlike the Little Rock Nine, the Clinton 12 students were not hand-picked and trained for the job of desegregation.
In the end, only one other member of the Clinton 12 made it to graduation.
He received a scholarship to attend Tennessee State University in Nashville, where he met his wife.
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