Highlander Folk School
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In 1932, Myles Horton and Don West founded the Highlander Folk School outside the town of Monteagle in Grundy County, Tennessee in order "to provide an educational center in the South for the training of rural and industrial leaders, and for the conservation and enrichment of the indigenous cultural values of the mountains." Also closely involved with Myles Horton and Highlander was John Beauchamp Thompson, a minister and educator highly active in the civil rights movement, who became one of the principal fund raisers and speakers for the school, working alongside Ralph Abernathy and Martin Luther King, Jr.. Highlander played an important part in the Southern labor movement and the civil rights movement. After being shut down in 1961 for violating state laws regarding segregation, the center reopened in Knoxville, Tennessee as the Highlander Research and Education Center. The center is currently located in New Market, Tennessee.
[edit] References
- John M. Glen, Highlander: No Ordinary School. University of Tennessee Press: 1996. ISBN 0-87049-928-9
- Federal Bureau of Investigation Highlander Folk School files obtained under the Freedom of Information Act
- Frank Adams, with Myles Horton, Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. John F. Blair: 1975. ISBN 0-89587-019-3
- Myles Horton, with Herbert and Judith Kohl, The Long Haul. Teachers College Press: 1997. ISBN 0-8077-3700-3
- Myles Horton and Paulo Friere, We Make the Road by Walking. Temple University Press: 1990. ISBN 0-87722-775-6
- History - 1930-1953: Beginnings & The Labor Years, http://www.hrec.org/a-history.asp
- TnEncyc: Highlander Folk School
- TnEncy: Highlander Research and Education Center
- Pam McMichael, "Dear Friend of Highlander", Highlander Reports, April 2005, (PDF)
