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Fifty years after the Fair Housing Act, neighborhoods in Chattanooga are still segregated
Dr. Clark White was 10 years old when his father decided to buy their family a home.
They had the money. Carl E. White worked as a teacher in 1958. He would later become principal of Calvin Donaldson School. A street near the school is still named for him. Clark White’s mother, Nellie C. White, also worked as a librarian at Sunny Side Elementary. In her spare time, she volunteered as a docent at the Hunter Museum of American Art.
A World War II veteran, White’s father had used the G.I. Bill to pursue a higher education, first at Tuskegee University and then at Tennessee State University, where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.
Like most returning service members, he wanted a piece of the America he helped protect.
White can still picture the house, several stories tall, all brick.