Sixty-six years after 85 Black students became the first in the Southeast to be integrated into a government school after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Oak Ridge Schools is asking the ...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — In November, WBIR 10News helped share the story of the Oak Ridge 85, the first Black students to integrate schools in the southeast in 1955. For 65 years, their stories were largely ...
In a few years, students throughout Tennessee's public schools will be reading and learning about the desegregation of two Oak Ridge schools by 85 Black students from the Scarboro community on Sept. 6 ...