The Tennessee Historical Commission and the Tennessee Historical Society announce the Tennessee History Book Award for 2023 goes to “A Most Tolerant Little Town: The Explosive Beginning of School Desegregation” by Rachel Louise Martin.
Set in Clinton, Tennessee, in September 1956, the book describes the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board. The author interviewed over sixty townsfolk, including nearly a dozen of the first students to desegregate Clinton High.