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 ...

"My Nana stuck up for what she believed in and did something amazing," the late Disney star, who died after suffering a seizure in 2021, previously told PEOPLE Jo Ann Allen Boyce, a member of the ...

Cameron Boyce’s grandmother and activist Jo Ann Allen Boyce has died at age 84 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. Jo Ann was surrounded by her family at her home in California when she died on ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jo Ann Allen Boyce, who as part of the “Clinton 12” helped integrate one of the first public schools ...

As a member of the “Clinton 12,” Jo Ann Allen Boyce helped integrate Clinton High School in Tennessee in 1956. She later became a nurse and author, sharing her story in an award-winning memoir. Her ...

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 ...

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 ...

The mother of actor Cameron Boyce, who died in 2019 at the age of 20, thanked Adam Sandler for the tribute to her son in “Happy Gilmore 2.” Cameron Boyce, who suddenly passed away in 2019 at age 20 ...

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 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — 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 ...