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  Editorial Board, Editorial Reviewers
She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.
Tom Rankin is Director of the Center for Documentary Studies and Associate Professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University.
Her research interests include music and social change movements in the U.S. context, particularly regarding the emergence and institutionalization of new fields.
www.southernspaces.org /edi_boa.html   (1439 words)

  
 Chronology of Political Events, 1954-1992   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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.
Proposal center on the CPSU’s alleged deviations from Marxism-Leninism on the questions “peaceful coexistence,” “peaceful transition,” “peaceful competition,” the “state of the whole people” and the “party of the whole people” (sometimes abbreviated as “the three peacefuls and the two wholes”).
www.revolutionintheair.com /chron/chron1.html   (11574 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.
The Myles Horton Reader is a collection of essays, speeches, and interviews by and with Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander.
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)

  
 An Introduction to Activist Learning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Activist Learning with young people can also happen in partnership with adult allies, although in this situation the emphasis should always be on youth-led action, with opportunities for adult-shared learning facilitation optional.
This Freechild Focus Area is designed for community and school educators who want to foster learning through just, powerful, and meaningful action.
The resources provided here are intended for educational purposes only, and are not meant to constitute professional or legal advice.
www.yp3.org /links.html   (200 words)

  
 Appalachian Center   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Highlander Research and Education Center, in New Market, Tenn., co-founded by the legendary Miles Horton, labor organizer in the early twentieth century.
ASA hosts the annual Appalachian Studies Conference, publishes the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and is the professional organization for those with Appalachian service and research interests.
Media arts center in Whitesburg, Ky., dedicated to preservation of Appalachian culture.
www.uky.edu /RGS/AppalCenter/Links/index.htm   (277 words)

  
 aR2001--Division of Preservation and Access
The Endowment also helps ensure access to these collections for the purposes of research, education, and public programming.
Grants will support an international project called The History of Cartography and other works that are the foundation for research across many disciplines of the humanities, including the Database of Classical Bibliography and the Chicago Hittite Dictionary.
NEH grants will also support the expansion of the Database of Spanish Golden Age Verse, the compilation of new volumes in the series Buildings of the United States, and the continuation of a digital corpus of papyri held by American universities.
www.neh.gov /news/report2001/preserv.html   (745 words)

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