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                                                       Calendar No. 794
110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2207

                          [Report No. 110-362]

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee as 
      a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 19, 2007

Mr. Alexander (for himself, Mr. Corker, and Mr. Salazar) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                      Energy and Natural Resources

                             June 16, 2008

              Reported by Mr. Bingaman, with an amendment
 [Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed 
                               in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee as 
      a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

<DELETED>SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    This Act may be cited as the ``Green McAdoo School 
National Historic Site Study Act of 2007''.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 2. FINDINGS.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Congress finds that--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the formerly segregated all-black Green McAdoo 
        School and all-white Clinton High School, both located in 
        Clinton, Tennessee, played a vital role in the school 
        desegregation crisis that preceded and followed the decision of 
        the Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education in 
        1954;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) Green McAdoo School opened as the Clinton 
        Colored School in 1935 and was renamed in 1947 to honor Green 
        McAdoo, a buffalo soldier who once owned the land on which the 
        school was built;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) in 1950, the parents of 5 Clinton, Tennessee, 
        children filed a lawsuit to gain entrance into Clinton High 
        School;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (4) at the time of the lawsuit, Tennessee and 
        Anderson County law required the segregation of secondary 
        schools;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (5) the lawsuit became known as ``McSwain v. 
        Anderson County'';</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (6) the lawsuit, which was dismissed by the 
        Federal District Court under the ``separate but equal'' 
        doctrine, was appealed by the parents, but was suspended 
        pending a Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of 
        Education;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (7) following the decision of the Supreme Court in 
        Brown v. Board of Education, which abolished the ``separate but 
        equal'' doctrine, the Federal District Court in Tennessee 
        issued an order on January 4, 1956, requiring desegregation of 
        Anderson County schools by not later than the 1956 fall 
        term;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (8) on August 27, 1956, 12 students from Green 
        McAdoo School met at the school before walking together to the 
        all-white Clinton High School to become the first African-
        American students to integrate a Southern, State-operated 
        school;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (9) on September 1, 1956, Clinton, Tennessee, 
        became the first Southern town to be occupied by National Guard 
        troops in an effort to quell violence sparked by protestors 
        from all over the United States who were opposed to school 
        integration;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (10) in 1957, Bobby Cain, a former Green McAdoo 
        student, became the first African-American to earn a diploma 
        from an integrated school following the Brown v. Board of 
        Education ruling;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (11) in 1958, the newly integrated Clinton High 
        School was destroyed by dynamite that most assumed was placed 
        by segregationists;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (12) 4 days after Clinton High School was 
        destroyed, the community had the students back in school at an 
        abandoned elementary school in neighboring Oak Ridge, 
        Tennessee; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (13) Clinton High School, which was rebuilt by 
        Anderson County, and the Green McAdoo School are the only 
        remaining schools associated with the Clinton desegregation 
        crisis.</DELETED>

<DELETED>SEC. 3. STUDY.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior (referred 
to in this Act as the ``Secretary'') shall conduct a study of the site 
of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, (referred to in this Act 
as the ``site'') to evaluate--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the national significance of the site; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) the suitability and feasibility of designating 
        the site as a unit of the National Park System.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (b) Criteria.--In conducting the study under subsection 
(a), the Secretary shall use the criteria for the study of areas for 
potential inclusion in the National Park System under section 8 of 
Public Law 91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-5).</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (c) Contents.--The study authorized by this Act shall--
</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) determine the suitability and feasibility of 
        designating the site as a unit of the National Park 
        System;</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) include cost estimates for any necessary 
        acquisition, development, operation, and maintenance of the 
        site; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (3) identify alternatives for the management, 
        administration, and protection of the site.</DELETED>
<DELETED>    (d) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date on 
which funds are made available to carry out the study under subsection 
(a), the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate a report that describes--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) the findings and conclusions of the study; 
        and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) any recommendations of the 
        Secretary.</DELETED>

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Green McAdoo School National 
Historic Site Study Act of 2008''.

SEC. 2. GREEN MCADOO SCHOOL NATIONAL HISTORIC SITE SPECIAL RESOURCE 
              STUDY.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of the Interior (referred to in this 
Act as the ``Secretary'') shall conduct a special resource study of the 
site of Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee, (referred to in this 
Act as the ``site'') to evaluate--
            (1) the national significance of the site; and
            (2) the suitability and feasibility of designating the site 
        as a unit of the National Park System.
    (b) Criteria.--In conducting the study under subsection (a), the 
Secretary shall use the criteria for the study of areas for potential 
inclusion in the National Park System under section 8(c) of Public Law 
91-383 (16 U.S.C. 1a-5(c)).
    (c) Contents.--The study authorized by this Act shall--
            (1) determine the suitability and feasibility of 
        designating the site as a unit of the National Park System;
            (2) include cost estimates for any necessary acquisition, 
        development, operation, and maintenance of the site; and
            (3) identify alternatives for the management, 
        administration, and protection of the site.
    (d) Report.--Not later than 3 years after the date on which funds 
are made available to carry out this Act, the Secretary shall submit to 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate a report 
that describes--
            (1) the findings and conclusions of the study; and
            (2) any recommendations of the Secretary.
                                                       Calendar No. 794

110th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2207

                          [Report No. 110-362]

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

 To direct the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and 
feasibility of designating Green McAdoo School in Clinton, Tennessee as 
      a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             June 16, 2008

                       Reported with an amendment