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Robert Newton Baker - 4th Superintendent Of Schools
1875
Rushstrong School **** Did you know... there are like 6
Rustrong Schools. They were all paid for by a man named Rushstrong and he
said, "I will pay for the schools as long as you name them after me." One in
each of I think 6 counties, Anderson being one of those also Knox
Co.
Progress Report
NASHVILLE (AP) Bobby Cain, the first Negro to graduate from
integrated Clinton, Tenn., High School, received a bachelor's degree from
Tennessee A&I University this Spring. Cain said he plans to do social work
in Columbus, Ohio, for a year, then return to college for graduate study.
Clinton's integration in 1956 was accompanied by violence and the school was
later dynamited.
Source: Stevens Point Daily Journal, Stevens Point, Wisconsin, July
24, 1961 Submitted By Angela Meadows
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