 In 1953, the Oak Ridge Town Council encouraged desegregation of Oak Ridge High School; this resulted in an unsuccessful attempt by some residents to recall Waldo Cohn, one of the council.Following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) that segregated public schools were unconstitutional, the Oak Ridge officials changed their policy and desegregated the schools.The nearby high school in Clinton was desegregated in the fall of 1956.