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Direct linkSlate, Nico – History of Education Quarterly, 2022
Scholars have demonstrated that a range of institutions, organizations, and "social movement schools" aimed to advance the civil rights movement through education. What remains unclear is how those institutions balanced conversation, direct instruction, role-play, and other pedagogical methods. This article focuses on the Highlander Folk…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Folk Schools, Social Change, Role Playing
HORTON, AIMEE – 1966
THE HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, FOUNDED IN 1931 TO TRAIN RURAL AND INDUSTRIAL LEADERS, WAS AN INTEGRATED CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION IN THE LATE 1930'S AND THE 1940'S AND FOR NATIONAL FARMERS UNION SESSIONS IN THE EARLY 1950'S. IN 1953 HIGHLANDER ORGANIZED TWO SUMMER WORKSHOPS ("THE SUPREME COURT DECISIONS AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS"), FOLLOWED…
Descriptors: Blacks, Civil Rights, Community Leaders, Folk Schools
Myer, M. Everett – Tennessee Education, 1972
Descriptors: Bus Transportation, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Equal Education
Perlstein, Daniel – Journal of Curriculum and Supervision, 2004
Massive white resistance to the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown decision encouraged educational administrators and leaders who supported school integration to ally themselves with progressive civic activists. Desegregation thus catalyzed the development of a new, more openly political vision of educational leadership. If schools of education were to…
Descriptors: School Desegregation, Racial Integration, Public Schools, Civil Rights
