Highlander Research & Education Center (1962- )

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Highlander Folk School (1932-1962)

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Bibliography: Highlander Folk School

Article: “The Answers Come from The People”: The Highlander Folk School and the Pedagogies of the Civil Rights Movement
Article: The Radical Civil Rights Movement: The Highlander Folk School and the Legacies of the Left in Cold War America
Article: Beauty and Power: Beauticians, the Highlander Folk School, and Women’s Professional Networks in the Civil Rights Movement
Article: Horton, Highlander, and Leadership Education: Lessons for Preparing Educational Leaders for Social Justice

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PS Orals Excerpt: Citizenship Education Programs (CEPs) in South Carolina

American studies scholar Peter Ling details the backstories of these Citizenship Education Programs (CEPs) that were so successful in South Carolina, focusing on the backstage networking between white and Black middle-class elites across the South to raise funding and space for CEPs–Horton’s wife...Read more

PS Orals Excerpt: Highlander legacies

In 1957, Horton and Clark invited Martin Luther King as a keynote speaker for Highlander’s 25th anniversary. Georgia’s segregationist governor Marvin Griffin sent infiltrators to take photos at the event. Soon, posters of King were displayed across the South with Horton and others in an act of “red...Read more
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