Willie Charles Booker was a member of the Oak Ridge 85. One of 85 youth selected to be sent to integrate the Oak Ridge School system in 1955, a year before the Clinton 12.

Little Known Local Black History: Willie Charles Booker

Oak Ridge, Tn – Willie Charles Booker passed aws on January 22, 2021. He was one of 85 students assigned to be among the first black students to integrate Oak Ridge School sustem. Those students are known as the Oak Ridge 85, sent from the black Scarboro School that would be closed, to integrate Robertsville Junior High School or Oak Ridge Senior High School in the 1955–1956 school years. Willie Charles Booker was among them.

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