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    1. Bobby Cain
    2. NEGRO GRADUATES IN WHITE CLASS OF 57 CLINTON, Tenn. (UP) A Negro boy with 87 white classmates Friday night became the first member of his race to be graduated by a state-supported integrated high school this deep in the South. Far from the sidelines, segregationist John Kasper commented in Knoxville, Tenn., that he hoped the boy also would have the added distinction of being the last. Bobby Cain, 17, was the 35th of the students in cap and gown to receive his diploma from Asst. Principal Mrs. Juania Moser in the gymnasium ceremony before an unsegregated audience of 600. There was no hint of tension or disorder at this scene of last fall's recurring violence which has resulted in 17 arrests on federal contempt charges and at one time brought charges and at one time brought National Guard tanks on the rush. Hammond Times, Hammond, Indiana, May 19, 1957 The numbers 57 and 87 are as printed

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