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
Myles Horton, co-founder of Highlander Folk School
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Mural by Mike Alewitz at the Highlander Research and Education Center
Septima Poinsette Clark
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Septima Poinsette Clark was an African American educator and civil rights activist. Clark developed the literacy and citizenship workshops that played an important role in the drive for voting rights
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…Leadership Conference (SCLC) founders Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, and future Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) members Septima Clark, Anne Braden, James Bevel, Hollis Watkins, Bernard Lafayette, John Lewis, and Julian Bond. Soon after attending Highlander, Bevel, Lafeyette, and Lewis…
Septima Poinsette Clark