Remembering the Clinton High School bombing, 65 years later

On a Sunday morning 65 years ago, Clinton High School was destroyed by dynamite.

"It really took something out of us for somebody to do something like that," Alfred Williams, a member of the Clinton 12, told WBIR in a 2008 interview. Williams passed away in 2019.

In 1956, Williams was one of 12 Black students who walked into Clinton High School, an all-white school, to better their education. Those brave teenagers are known today as the Clinton 12.

"We had to face the hostile crowd going to school," Williams explained.

On Oct. 5, 1958, roughly 100 sticks of dynamite were set off inside Clinton High School, destroying the building.

To this day, no one has been arrested.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/history/clinton-high-school-bomb-clinton-twelve-anderson-county-east-tennessee/51-c2de563e-ae1f-4e8e-8ac9-31373d0d1c46

I was 14, living in Wisconsin, and even then SMDH at this. I'm beginning to believe nothing has changed much, even though I thought it had.