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Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1932 -

Historical Information

Highlander Research and Education Center, formerly Highlander Folk School, is a social justice training center for emerging leaders in grassroots organizing and movement building.

In the 1950s-1960s, it played a crucial role in the Civil Rights movement by providing workshops and trainings to future movement leaders and was the incubator for many important civil rights initiatives such as the Montgomery bus boycott, Citizenship Schools, and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Citation

88 years of fighting for justice. (n.d.). Highlander Research and Education Center. https://highlandercenter.org/our-history-timeline/

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

Helen Bass Williams papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 310
Overview This collection includes documents, correspondence, published materials, photographs, and audio recordings collected and created by Helen Bass Williams that document her personal life, education, and her work as a civil rights activist in the South, educator, and counselor and professor at Purdue University.
Dates: 1915 - 2004; Majority of material found within circa 1960s and 1970s