Bobby Cain, who helped integrate high schools, has died

Bobby Cain, who helped integrate one of the first high schools in the US South in 1956 as one of the so-called Clinton 12, has died in Nashville at the age of 85.

Bobby Cain was a senior when he entered the formerly all-white Clinton High School in Tennessee on a court order. He had previously attended a black high school about 32km away in Knoxville and was not happy about leaving his friends to spend his senior year at a new school in a hostile environment.

"He had no interest in doing it because, you know, he'd gotten to rise up through the ranks at Austin High School as the senior and was finally big fish in the pond. And to have to go to this all-white high school - it was tough," said Adam Velk, executive director of the Green McAdoo Cultural Center, which promotes the legacy of th