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http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp014q77fv48z| Title: | Grassroots social activism records of the Highlander Folk School and Highlander Research and Education Center, 1932-1978 [microform]. |
| Other Titles: | Records of the Highlander Folk School and Highlander Research and Education Center, 1932-1978 Highlander Folk School |
| Contributors: | Primary Source Media |
| Keywords: | Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) Adult education—United States—History African Americans Civil rights—United States |
| Issue Date: | 2007 |
| Publisher: | Primary Source Media |
| Place of Publication: | Woodbridge, CT |
| Description: | The collection documents the struggle for justice through political and social activism. The records of the Highlander Folk School, document its labor, civil rights and Appalachian proverty programs and workshops and the harrassment by government agencies. The files include correspondence, minutes, annual reports, workshop materials, legal papers, play scripts, song books, clippings, speeches, writings, publications, and transcripts of tape recordings. Protest songs, labor songs, and African American religious songs were a large part of this movement. Radio programs, and recorded songs included the voices of the leaders from the civil rights movement, including Esau Jenkins, Septima Clark, Rosa Parks. Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s and Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement beginning in the late 1950s. They worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Guy and Candie Carawan, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks, among others. In 1959, the School was investigated for Communist activities and confiscation by the state of Tennessee. Soon after, its buildings mysteriously burned to the ground. The Highlander Folk School was re-chartered in 1971 as the Highlander Research and Education Center near Knoxville, Tenn. Bib 6355616 |
| URI: | http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dsp014q77fv48z |
| Appears in Collections: | Monographic reports and papers (Access Limited to Princeton) |
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