This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Jo Ann Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12, has died at 84. The civil rights pioneer faced violent KKK mobs and ...

CLINTON, Tenn. (WATE) — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the Clinton 12 who desegregated the first public high school in the South, has died at the age of 84, the Green McAdoo Cultural Center ...

The civil rights trailblazer was one of 12 Black students who attended the first integrated public high school in Clinton, Tenn. Desiree Anello is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

The night before she first walked into Clinton High School in 1956, Jo Ann Allen beamed over her outfit with the excitement of any teenager starting ninth grade. Her grandmother had sewn the dress — ...

CLINTON, Tenn — Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, a member of the historic Clinton 12, died Wednesday at the age of 84. The Green McAdoo Cultural Center announced her death on Dec. 4. Boyce was one of the ...

Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, has died at 84 NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of the first public schools in the South, died on Wednesday at her Los Angeles home. She was 84. Her death ...

Jo Ann Crozier Allen Boyce, one of the Clinton 12, has died. She was 84 years old. The East Tennessee civil rights figure died Dec. 3, according to Green McAdoo Cultural Center, a museum dedicated to ...