PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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Leaders for the Civil Rights Movement
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Trained labor organizers and workers
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Blacks and white were segregated at the school
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People who attended Highlander learned how to act against segregation in their hometowns
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Detailed explanation-1: -Highlander wanted empower students to become agents of social change. In the 1950s, the folk school made a commitment to the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. It opened its doors to Black activists from across the South, making it one of the region’s only fully integrated schools.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks attended and taught programs at Highlander. Trainees of the Highlander Folk School programs participated in the Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, the 1960s sit-ins, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
Detailed explanation-3: -Highlander’s democratic approach to education created a space in which Leftist ideas and strategies could coalesce, a space that stood in sharp contrast to both the fantasy of a ‘Communist training school’ and the anti-communist segregationists who propagated that fantasy.
Detailed explanation-4: -In August 1955, Rosa Parks attended a two-week workshop at Highlander Folk School on implementing school desegregation. Founded in the 1930s by Myles Horton as an adult organizer training school, Highlander sought to build local leadership for social change.