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The Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly known as the Highlander Folk School, is a social justice leadership training school and cultural center in New Market, Tennessee. Founded in 1932 by activist Myles Horton , educator Don West , and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski , it was originally located in the community of ...
Portrait of Myles Horton, founder of Highlander Folk School. Photographer Unknown. WHS Image ID 52275 Myles Horton in the 1930s. Myles Falls Horton (July 9, 1905 – January 19, 1990) [1] was an American educator, socialist, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights ...
Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was a seamstress by profession; she was also the secretary for the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP. Twelve years before her history-making arrest, Parks was stopped from boarding a city bus by driver James F. Blake , who ordered her to board at the back door and then drove off without her.
A diagram showing where Rosa Parks sat in the unreserved section at the time of her arrest. In 1955, Parks completed a course in "Race Relations" at the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, where nonviolent civil disobedience had been discussed as a tactic. On December 1, 1955, Parks was sitting in the foremost row in which black people could ...
The third annual Livingston County Rosa Parks Transit Equity Day event is set for 8-9:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 2, at Cleary Commons, Cleary University, 3750 Cleary Drive, in Howell. The event includes ...
Clark also served as Highlander's director of workshops, recruiting teachers and students. [23] One of the participants in her workshops was Rosa Parks. A few months after participating in the workshops Parks helped to start the Montgomery bus boycott. Many other women who took part in the Montgomery bus boycott also attended Highlander and ...
A preschool in Florida is facing backlash from the NAACP and the parents of a 2-year-old Black girl, who they allege was made to participate in a "racially unethical" Rosa Parks role play.
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