[Dialogue] anyone heard of this org?

[W. J.]

According to Wikipedia, "During the 1950s, [The Highlander Folk School] played a critical role in the American Civil Rights Movement. It trained civil rights leader Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott, as well as providing training for many other movement activists including Martin Luther King, Jr., James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy and John Lewis in the mid- and-late 1950s."
Marshall



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From: Byrne & Carole Johnson <byrnecarole-ica at midco.net>
To: Colleague Dialogue <dialogue at wedgeblade.net>
Sent: Sun, February 28, 2010 8:01:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] anyone heard of this org?

 
Hi Sunny,
I am coming to this really late, but when I first 
read your question and then later the one from Lucille, my mind went to the 
credit given to this school, I believe, at the Civil Rights Museum at the 
Lorraine Motel in Memphis for having been the training ground of the civil 
rights movement leadership and especially the singing of the movement.  At 
the time I read that statement at the museum, I was reminded of Mathews 
statements of the relationship between a movement and its singing.
Carole (Bond) Johnson
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>From: Sunny 
>  Walker 
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>  Shankland ; Heather Aronson ; Jim Slotta >  ; John Epps >  ; Oliveann 
>  Slotta ; Penny McDaniel ; Sherwood Shankland ; Sunny 
>  Walker 
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>Subject: [Dialogue] anyone heard of this 
>  org?
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>Just ran across an old (2003) 
>  newsletter from Highlander Research and
> Education
> Center (New Market, TN) – the leard article is 
>  “Highlander’s Strategies for
> Movement
> Building . Begins with “
> Highland continues in its 71-year tradition of supporting 
>  grassroots leadership in the South and
> Appalachia …The newsletter is also in Spanish. Anyway, 
>  just wondering re theirs and our paths having crossed at some 
>  point.
> 
>Sunny
>Sunny
>
> Walker
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