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On Sept. 6, 1955, 85 Black students from Scarboro School walked or took a bus to two all-white schools in Oak Ridge - an unknown story to many.
The Scarboro community is described as a "secret city" within the secret city of Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.
The Scarboro 85 was the first group of Black students in the southeast to attend an integrated school.
Sheila Arnold, who wrote and told the story of the Scarboro 85 at the 2020 storytelling festival will return to tell it and more in February shows.
The Anderson County Commission donated $125,000 to a monument that honors the 85 Black students who were the first to desegregate public schools in the southeast.