CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce was a member of the Clinton 12, the group of students who desegregated the first public high school in the south. She died this past December at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Students Jo Ann Allen (later Boyce), left, and Minnie Ann Dickey (later Jones) walk down the steps outside the recently ...

This Black History Month, we look back 67 years when a dozen black students were finally able to walk to their local school, instead of taking a bus 20 miles to another town to attend a Black school.

Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, has died at 84 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of ...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12 who desegregated the first public high school in the South, has died at the age of 84, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center ...

CLINTON, Tenn. — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 3, at the age of 84. She was one of 12 Black students who enrolled at Clinton High School in August of 1956 after a federal ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, died on Wednesday at her Los Angeles home. She was 84. Her ...