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- Title
Introduction: Education for Liberation.
- Authors
Morris, Aldon
- Abstract
The Highlander Folk School is an extraordinary place, a residential center for democratic education, a convening place and movement half-way house for political activism. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton, Jim Dombrowski and Don West in Monteagle, Tennessee. Highlander worked over the years in a context of class domination, race domination and gender domination. Vicious overt racism was forever present in the South of the 1930 and for decades to come. Jim Crow laws and the system of White supremacy they upheld were in full sway, both backed by the U.S. Constitution and local governments. From the beginning. Horton and Highlander doggedly pursued the vision of real democracy. Horton was convinced that to accomplish that goal, poor people had to be empowered socially, economically and politically which meant they had to dismantle the system of class domination. The message Highlander disseminated through workshops, informal discussions or music and dance sessions was that workers themselves as a group had the capacity and resources to topple class domination. That radical idea helped support workers in their efforts to unionize, and helped sustain them in their battles against management and capital.
- Subjects
MONTEAGLE (Tenn.); TENNESSEE; UNITED States; POLITICAL participation; SOCIAL structure; HIGHLANDER Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
- Publication
Social Policy, 1991, Vol 21, Issue 3, p2
- ISSN
0037-7783
- Publication type
Article