CLINTON, Tenn. — Tennesseans are honoring the life and legacy of Bobby Cain, a member of the Clinton 12 and the first Black student to graduate from a desegregated public high school in the United States.
Cain, who died on Sept. 22 in Nashville, is being remembered at First Baptist Church in Clinton, where mourners gathered Friday as he lay in repose.
In 1956, Cain was one of 12 Black students who integrated Clinton High School following the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He was the only senior in the group, walking through crowds of protesters each day on his way to class…