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	Highlander Research and Education Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1957, the Georgia Commission on Education published a pamphlet entitled "Highlander Folk School: Communist Training School in Monteagle, Tennessee." In 1961, the State of Tennessee revoked Highlander's charter and confiscated its land and property.
		In the 1960s and 1970s, Highlander began to focus on worker health and safety in the coalfields of Appalachia, and played a role in the emergence of the region's environmental justice movement.
		In the 1980s and 1990s, Highlander broadened from that base into broader regional, national, and international environmentalism; struggles against the negative effects of globalization; grassroots leadership development in under-resourced communities; and (beginning in the 1990s) an involvement in LGBT issues, both in the U.S. and internationally.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Highlander_Folk_School (499 words)

	Highlander Folk School - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL [Highlander Folk School] New Market, Tenn.; founded in 1932 by Myles Horton in Monteagle, Tenn., now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center.
		At first the school focused on training union organizers, but in the 1950s Highlander became a center of the civil-rights movement.
		Folk culture and urban adaptation: a case study of the Paharia in Rajshahi.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-highlandf1s1.html (302 words)

	Highlander Folk School
		It was loosely modeled on Danish folk schools, which provided adult education, especially in history and government, to raise the consciousness of students.
		Clark became Highlander's director of education, and she developed the Highlander concept of citizenship schools, which proliferated in the South and provided instruction in everything from balancing a checkbook to registering to vote to reading.
		Highlander's success in developing leaders in oppressed communities led to harassment, particularly from the Tennessee state government, which sought to close the school.
	www.africanaonline.com /orga_highlander_flok_school.htm (370 words)

	When Adult Education Stood for Democracy
		Highlander can only be understood historically, not merely as an historical fact with its relationships to other independent historical facts, but as a factor of history-as a critical actor in the unfolding drama of historical change.
		Highlander's relationship with social movements is the key to understanding both the strength and limitations of its adult education program.
		This was Highlander's primary means of dealing with racism-not to talk people out of their racist attitudes, but to put them in an integrated setting at the school where they had to come up with a new way of thinking about people in order to legitimize their experience.
	www.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/facultypapers/ThomasHeaney_Democracy.cfm (3950 words)

	Philosophy Camp - University of Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He was critical of schools that subjected students to a lot of rote memorization and examinations because he felt these processes killed learning and deadened the lives of the students.
		Grundtvig's folk school was to be residential, with teachers and students from all classes of society living and learning together for a period of three to five months.
		Young men and women who had attended the folk schools in their rural villages later became instrumental in establishing the modern dairy and agricultural cooperatives that benefited farmers and strengthened Denmark's economy at the end of the 19th century.
	www.philosophycamp.org /roots.html (1251 words)

	Inventory of the Highlander Research and Education Center Collection, 1937-1948 and undated
		The Highlander Folk School was re-chartered in 1971 as the Highlander Research and Education Center near Knoxville, Tenn. The collection includes acetate and transcription discs documenting the struggle for justice through political and social activism.
		The Highlander Folk School was re-chartered in 1971 as the Highlander Research and Education Center near Knoxville, Tenn., where it continued to provide education and support to poor and working-class people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction and to help grassroots leaders create tools for building broad-based movements for change.
		FD-729: Highlander Folk School dispatch entitled, "Broadcast to England, 1937" includes: narrated description of Appalachian mountain people; spirituals, ballads, and other songs performed for broadcast such as "We Shall Not Be Moved" and "The Crawdad Song," as well as humorous stories that end with a yodel.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/20361.html (1834 words)

	Highlander Research and Education Center
		The Highlander Center is a residential popular education and research organization based on a 106-acre farm in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains, twenty-five miles east of Knoxville, Tennessee.
		Highlander's work is rooted in the belief that in a truly just and democratic society the policies shaping political and economic life must be informed by equal concern for and participation by all people.
		But Highlander is more than its history - Highlander is an ongoing story of the people who continue to gather here today to tell their stories and join with others to fight for justice, peace, and fairness, not just for themselves, but for everyone.
	www.highlandercenter.org (868 words)

	Highlander Research and Education Center - History - 1953-1961: The Civil Rights Movement
		Highlander's long tradition of working with African Americans in the labor movement put the school in a strong position to support the movement to end segregation, which is right where it wanted to be.
		Highlander's work in the Civil Rights Movement throughout this period focused mainly on school desegregation and voter education/voting rights.
		The Citizenship Schools played a critical role in building the base for the Civil Rights Movement by helping those African Americans who were among the 2.5 million functional illiterates in 8 Southern states in that period participate in politics.
	www.highlandercenter.org /a-history2.asp (507 words)

	An Exploration of Myles Horton's Democratic Praxis: Highlander Folk School Educational Foundations - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Highlander Folk School is an adult education center located in eastern Tennessee that was formed in 1932 by Myles Horton and continues today.1 My les Horton (1905-1990) hoped to create an independent adult learning center where people could come together and address their problems.
		Highlander was built on principles of democracy ; however, Horton resisted definitively defining democracy throughout his lifetime.
		I want to suggest that Horton and Highlander offer us a credible vision of an alternative to the present liberal democratic order, though Horton would be the first to say that vision must continue to grow and develop and be critiqued, as times change.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3971/is_200404/ai_n9390222 (817 words)

	TN Encyclopedia: MYLES FALLS HORTON
		Myles F. Horton, a founder and director of both the Highlander Folk School and the Highlander Research and Education Center, was a progressive educator whose programs not only contributed significantly to the labor and Civil Rights movements, but also made him a controversial figure in Tennessee and the South for most of his adult life.
		In 1927, while conducting a Bible school in the Cumberland Plateau town of Ozone, Horton found that bringing adults together to develop their own solutions to common concerns was an effective approach to community problems.
		In the late 1940s Horton and the Highlander staff broke with the CIO over its demand that the school compromise its ideological independence and advocacy of interracial unionism.
	tennesseeencyclopedia.net /imagegallery.php?EntryID=H073 (542 words)

	Myles Horton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Myles Horton (July 5, 1905, Savannah, Tennessee - January, 1990) was an American popular educator and founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.
		A poor white from West Tennessee, his social and political views were strongly influenced by radical social gospel theologian Reinhold Niebuhr under whom he studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
		Along with Don West, he founded the Highlander Folk School (now Highlander Research and Education Center) in his native Tennessee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Myles_Horton (141 words)

	King Encyclopedia
		While working towards her degrees and supporting herself as a teacher, Clark became the first fl central board member of the YWCA and participated in an NAACP lawsuit against the Columbia School District to equalize fl and white teachers' salaries.
		In 1956, South Carolina passed a statute prohibiting city employees from joining civil rights organizations, and Clark was fired by the Charleston school board for her refusal to resign from the NAACP.
		When the Tennessee government forced the closure of Highlander in 1961, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) established the Citizenship Education Program (CEP) using the model of Clark’s citizenship schools.
	www.stanford.edu /group/King/about_king/encyclopedia/clark_septima.htm (479 words)

	Employing Music in the Cause of Social Justice
		Highlander was an adult education center with strong ties to the labor union movement, which had been founded by Myles Horton and Don West in Monteagle, Tennessee, in the southern Appalachians.
		The Highlander Folk School provided a critical incubator for the civil rights movement, training potential leaders in the Black community, including young ministers, which helped build the churches’ capacity to mobilize congregants to act politically.
		In her work at the Highlander Folk School, Horton made it a point not only to transform the songs she encountered, but also to preserve them...She was exposed to a variety of song traditions, including mountain folk music, American labor songs, international songs of political struggle, and Southern spirituals.
	www.nyfolklore.org /pubs/voic31-1-2/socjust1.html (2206 words)

	Lynn Stuter -- Idols Are a Dangerous Thing
		Let’s take a trip to the Highlander Research and Education Center, aka, the Highlander Folk School, see what this “organizing school”, if it really is, is all about.
		Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and a group of supporters as the Highlander Folk School, a "school for adults," where people of like spirit could meet, share their experiences and learn from each other, the center has continued with essentially little change in its basic principles.
		While the school initially focused on justice for workers in the South, racial segregation became the pervading issue for the school for several decades beginning in the early 1940s.
	www.newswithviews.com /Stuter/stuter67.htm (1469 words)

	The American Experience \| Eleanor Roosevelt \| FBI Files - Highlander Folk School (1 of 4)
		The Highlander Folk School at Monteagle, Tennessee, has earned its bad reputation over a long period of years as a result of its left wing programs, the Communist-front taint of its leadership and the disgraceful conduct of school leaders when called upon by congressional committees to answer justified questions about its operations.
		More recently, attention has been centered on Highlander Folk School because of its emphasis on forcing racial integration and the accompanying deterioration of harmony and disruption of goodwill upon the South.
		When criticism arises, the school has always been able to count upon statements of defense from a clique of left-wing "do gooders" whose prominent positions in various fields have been tarnished by their misuse of them in this and similar respects.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/eleanor/sfeature/fbi_hfs_01.html (237 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Highlander
		Highlander Folk School HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL [Highlander Folk School] New Market, Tenn.; founded in 1932 by Myles Horton in Monteagle, Tenn., now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center.
		There Jacobite Highlanders defeated (1689) a large government force under Hugh MacKay, and the Jacobite leader, Viscount Dundee, was killed.
		Blair Atholl BLAIR ATHOLL [Blair Atholl], parish, Perth and Kinross, central Scotland, at the confluence of the Garry and the Tilt rivers.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Highlander (647 words)

	KING OF AMERICA
		Highlander had its charter revoked by a Tennessee court after State Police raided the school and made arrests for illegal possession of liquor, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.
		The Highlander School is closely connected with the Communist SCEF and has served as a training school for the Communists in the fields of civil rights and labor agitation for over thirty years.
		The Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West, who were joined later that year by James Dombrowski upon the latter’s return from Russia.
	www.knology.net /~bilrum/KingofAmerica.htm (4286 words)

	The History of Jim Crow
		The school was established as a normal school, for the training of fl students to enter the teaching profession, and underwent major physical additions to its campus in 1922, 1955, and 1968.
		Cheyney University: A school that came into being in 1832, when Richard Humphreys, a wealthy Quaker born in the British Virgin Islands, bequeathed $10,000 to a group of fellow Quakers to build a school dedicated to instructing the descendents of the African Race.
		The schools emphasized the education of informed citizens, focusing on issues of democracy, power and freedom.
	www.jimcrowhistory.org /scripts/jimcrow/glossary.cgi?term=c&letter=yes (3689 words)

	COMMUNISM and CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT --More Birch Society Myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Several books and doctoral dissertations have discussed Highlander Folk School (HFS) history in exhaustive detail and a major portion of Highlander's papers are archived at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in Madison WI as well as the Tennessee State Library Manuscripts Division in Nashville.
		Highlander Folk School did nothing in its long history to deserve the venomous attacks it received from racists and non-racists fearful of a society undergoing change.
		If, for example, it were true that Highlander engaged in illegal activities or served as a cover for subversives to accomplish their ends, I would have no problem acknowledging that because I have no vested interest in Highlander.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/995097/posts?page=12 (6179 words)

	Films
		In 1932 a group of teachers aware of the horrible conditions in the Cumberland organized the Highlander Folk School, under the direction of Miles Horton.
		Produced with the cooperation of the Highlander Folk School and the People of Cumberland, Stebbins and Hill take cameras to the Plateau of the Cumberland, the ruined badlands of a forgotten people.
		The film demonstrates a new beginning for the coal miners and mill workers and the advantages of labor unions.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Huffman/Frontier/people.html (538 words)

	Chronology of Political Events, 1954-1992
		Highlander is an important institution in bringing together and training networks of civil rights activists (one of whom was Rosa Parks); it had been founded as one of many “radical labor colleges in 1932, it was directed from 1933 to 1973 by Myles Horton.
		Highlander was forced to close by segregationist pressure in 1959, it reopened in Knoxville as Highlander Research and Education Center, and then moved in 1972 in New Market Tennessee, and survived into the ‘70s.
		The School - dubbed by the left the “School of the Assassins” is later moved to Fort Benning Georgia.
	www.revolutionintheair.com /chron/chron1.html (11574 words)

	Pts webpage2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His searching took him to the University of Chicago and eventually to the folk school movement in Denmark before he was ready to return to Tennessee and start his own school.
		The school's integrated classes and its theories brought it to the attention of law-enforcement officials.
		In the 1960s, the Highlander Folk School was ordered to close by the Tennessee courts.
	www.unc.edu /~cmyers/psample.html (317 words)

	Highlander Research and Education Center - Further Reading & Viewing on Highlander
		Septima Clark was the first director of Highlander's highly acclaimed Citizenship Schools, started on John's Island, South Carolina in the 1950's.
		"Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School and the Wilder Coal Strike of 1932." Fall 2003.
		A one-day workshop was videotaped by New York Univeristy film professor George Stoney and two NYU students, who have now compiled excerpts of the tape for others to use to discuss themes such as a different approach to adult education, linking community and university-based learning, and literacy for empowerment.
	www.highlandercenter.org /a-history6.asp (776 words)

	HungryBlues: MLK, Communist Training Schools, Cindy Sheehan, and Rosa Parks (I) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		MLK, Communist Training Schools, Cindy Sheehan, and Rosa Parks (I) The excerpt that I recently posted from the Church Committee Case Study on counterintelligence activities directed at Martin Luther King, Jr.
		The image of King at Highlander is from a four page newspaper sized propaganda piece that was produced by the Georgia Commission in 1957.
		The Highlander Folk School had a special twenty-fifth anniversary celebration, which was attended by activists from around the country.
	minorjive.typepad.com /hungryblues/2005/08/mlk_communist_t.html (1138 words)

	Grundy - Tennessee History for Kids
		Myles Horton, the founder of the Highlander Folk School, was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.
		In the 1950s the school trained many Civil Rights leaders, including Rosa Parks, in non-violent protest methods.
		In 1959 the school was shut down by the local sheriff.
	www.tnhistoryforkids.org /local/grundy (99 words)

	11/12/2005 - Discrimination Still Very Much Alive In The Rural South - Opinion - Chattanoogan.com
		Rosa, it seems, just got “tired.” Not from standing or sitting in the back of the bus, but from the pandemic treatment she and others around her received from certain people - people no better and sometimes much worse than she but who were legally superior to her because of the color of her skin.
		Rosa Parks went on with the other Highlander-trained protesters to ignite the Civil Rights movement, but the Highlander Folk School was left to deal with the aftermath of its notoriety.
		Highlander Folk School burned not long after the attention it received for providing Rosa and others that strength of purpose.
	www.chattanoogan.com /articles/article_75806.asp (681 words)

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