- Collection:
- Nashville Public Library Digital Collections Portal: Civil Rights
- Title:
- Highlander Folk School, circa 1940
- Creator:
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
- Date of Original:
- 1940
- Subject:
- Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)--History
Adult education--Tennessee--History
Working class--Education--Tennessee--History
Dissenters
Freedom of speech--Tennessee
Liberty
Activists--American--Tennessee--Monteagle
Civil rights movements--Tennessee
Civil rights workers--Tennessee
Nonviolence--Study and teaching--Tennessee--Monteagle
Monteagle (Tenn.)--History--Sources
Monteagle (Tenn.)--Social conditions
Southern States--Race relations--History--20th century--Sources - People:
- Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444
- Medium:
- pamphlets
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/tiff
- Description:
- Pamphlet of the history of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee. The pamphlet tells of Highlander's origins, history, programs, administration, and support. In 1932, Myles Horton, a native Tennessean educated at Cumberland University and the University of Chicago, returned to Tennessee to help provide Southern workers with an opportunity for an education fitted to their practical needs. The Highlander Folk School was founded "to provide an educational center in the South for the training of rural and industrial leaders, and for the conservation and enrichment of the indigenous cultural values of the mountain."
- Metadata URL:
- http://digital.library.nashville.org/u?/nr,568
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
- Extent:
- 1 pamphlet : col.; 5.5 in x 8.5 in.
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Ephemera Collection, Special Collections Division, Nashville Public Library.
- Contributing Institution:
- Nashville Public Library (Tenn.). Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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