1959 Highlander Way · New Market,
TN 37820 · phone: (865) 933-3443 · fax: (865) 933-3424
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1959 Highlander Way · New Market,
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Books*Adams, Frank, with Myles Horton. Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. John F. Blair, 1975. The first book to document comprehensively the history and theory of Highlander. Written by a former Highlander director. *Bell, Brenda, John Gaventa and John Peters, eds. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Paulo Freire and Myles Horton. Temple University Press, 1991. The edited transcripts of discussions between two of the most well-known educator-activists of the twentieth century. Clark, Septima Poinsette with LeGette Glythe. Echo in My Soul. E.P. Dutton, 1962. Includes several chapters on Septima Clark's experience working at Highlander. *Clark, Septima with Cynthia Brown, ed. Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. Wild Tree, 1986. Septima Clark was the first director of Highlander's highly acclaimed Citizenship Schools, started on John's Island, South Carolina in the 1950's. This account of her involvement with the Civil Right's Movement includes her direction of those schools, and their significance to the overall struggle for equality and justice. Coleman, Evelyn. Circle of Fire. American Girl, 2001. A book for young people age 10-14 about Highlander! The heroine is a 12-year-old African American girl who foils a Ku Klux Klan plot to bomb the Highlander Folk School while Eleanor Roosevelt is visiting. Set in 1958, the book is based on a true incident -- Eleanor Roosevelt did visit Highalnder, and the Klan did plot to bomb the school while she was there. *Glen, John. Highlander: No Ordinary School. University of Tennessee Press, 1996. An account of the first 30 years of Highlander's history, from its founding in 1932 until 1962. *Highlander: An Approach to Education Presented Through a Collection of Writings. This collection of 26 articles provides an in-depth focus on Highlander’s approach to adult education. Through chapters dealing with Myles Horton, residential workshops, learning in community, and participatory research and culture, the articles address the process of how adults learn about issues and become empowered to initiate action to change unjust systems. *Horton, Aimee. The Highlander Folk School: A History of its Major Programs. Carlson Publishing, 1989. An account of the first 3O years of Highlander's history, from its founding in 1932 to 1961. *Horton, Myles, with Herbert and Judith Kohl. The Long Haul: Autobiography of Myles Horton. Doubleday Books, 1990. This book traces the life history of Myles Horton in the context of his work as co-founder and director of the Highlander Center. *Jacobs, Dale, ed. The Myles Horton Reader: Education For Social Change. University of Tennessee Press, 2003. The Myles Horton Reader is a collection of essays, speeches, and interviews by and with Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander. Horton saw education as a way to change the world collectively, rather than as a means for individual advancement, and his work at Highlander was critical to the development of three different social justice movements in the South: the union movement in the 1930’s and 1940’s, the civil rights movement in the 1950’s and 1960’s, and the environmental justice movement in the 1970’s and 1980’s. Morris, Aldon D. Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. Free Press, 1984. The emergence of the Civil Rights Movement and the role that Highlander played as both a meeting place and initiator of Citizenship Schools. Payne, Charles. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle. University of California Press, 1997. Includes an excellent chapter on the role of Highlander and other groups in supporting civil rights organizing in Mississippi. Schmidt-Pirro, Julia and Karen M. McCurdy. "Employing Music in the Cause of Social Justice: Ruth Crawford Seeger and Zilphia Horton." Voices: The Journal of New York Folklore (Volume 31, Spring-Summer 2005). An excerpted version of the article is available online at www.nyfolklore.org/pubs/voic31-1-2/socjust1.html. Sibley, Joel H., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Left. Garland Publishing, 1990. Highlander and Horton entries. Tjerandsen, Carl. Education for Citizenship: A Foundation's Experience. A history of the Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation, which provided critical support to Highlander and other social justice efforts during the 1950s and 1960s. Chapter 4, "Learning to Secure and Use Civic Rights: Through Changing the Individual," discusses Highlander. Wigginton, Eliot, ed. Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grassroots Social Activism in America, 1921-1964. Doubleday, 1992. A collection of first hand accounts by activists concerning their interaction and involvement with Highlander. Wilson, Charles Reagan & Ferris, William, eds. Encyclopedia of Southern Culture. The University of North Carolina Press, 1989. A ten-year project involving more than 800 scholars and writers in many fields, offers an extraordinary portrait of one of the nation's richest cultural landscapes. Articles & MonographsAdams, Frank. "Highlander Folk School." Harvard Educational Review, Volume 42, No. 4 (1972): 497-520. Brown, Fred. "Highlander: A Rich History Creates a Progressive Future." Knoxville NewsSentinel, January 16, 2000. E1+ *"Highlander - An Approach to Education Presented Through a Collection of Writings." Highlander Research and Education Center, 1989. Highlander Center: Historical and Philosophical Tour. Highlander Research and Education Center. A brief survey of Highlander's history, philosophy, and links to the field of adult education. "The Highlander Folk School: Fostering Individual Growth and Social Change." The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 15, 1988. "Nurturing New Seeds in a Garden of Hope." New York Times, January 29, 1990. Smith, Angela. "Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School and the Wilder Coal Strike of 1932." Fall 2003. (PDF, 681 KB) For a brief autobiography by Ms. Smith that explain her connection to this subject, click here. Films & Videos*Freire, Paulo. Myles Horton, Paulo Freire and Friends Gather at Highlander. A one-day workshop was videotaped by New York Univeristy film professor George Stoney and two NYU students, who have now compiled excerpts of the tape for others to use to discuss themes such as a different approach to adult education, linking community and university-based learning, and literacy for empowerment. Also comes with a two-page viewing guide. Video, Highlander Center, 1998. *Horton, Mvles with Bill Moyers. The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly. Video, Public Broadcasting System, 1981. Bill Moyers interviews Myles Horton about his ideas concerning Highlander and activist education. Phenix, Lucy, producer. You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South. Film, First Run/Icarus Films, 1985. Feature-length film about the history of Highlander. PhotographsPhotogaphs from the Highlander archives can be seen at the following:
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