Highlander Research and Education Center

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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 Summerfield in Grundy County, Tennessee, between Monteagle and Tracy City. Highlander has provided education to labor and political leaders throughout the American South, Appalachia, and the world. Highlander's earliest contributions were to the Depression era labor movement. During the mid-to-late 1950s, it played a critical role in the American Civil Rights Movement, for example, training Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The school taught many other movement activists including Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) founders Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, and future Student Nonviolent Coordinating...

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