Back in 1954, Black students in Anderson County were bused to Knoxville to attend Austin High School as there wasn’t a segregated school for them to attend in their home county. Imagine how early you’d have to get up, over 70 years ago, before the interstate highway system existed, to make a 30ish mile bus trip into Knoxville just go to high school? Then came the Supreme Court’s landmark 9-0 decision in Brown v. The Board of Education that wiped…
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