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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Highlander"”.
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Historical Study of the Highlander Method: Honing Leadership for Social Justice.
… against economic, political and social inequity, Highlander, founded in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, near Chattanooga, served as a community-training center for southern industrial labor and farmers’ unions and as a major gathering place for black and white civil rights activists, even in those …
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College access for first-generation highlander college students of northern Thailand
… that support college access for first-generation highlander college students? How do students perceive the role of ethnicity in relation to their college access? What significance does higher education have for highlander students, families, and ethnic communities? Among the relatively few …
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
… how the Citizenship School Program of the Highlander Folk School shaped the grassroots leadership of the Civil Rights Movement. The thesis examines the role of citizenship education in the modern Civil Rights Movement and explores how educational efforts within the Movement enfranchised and …
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Faith in Action: The First Citizenship School on Johns Island, South Carolina.
… Clark, Myles Horton, Bernice Robinson, and the Highlander Folk School all collaborated to create this school. Why and how this success was reached is the main scope of this manuscript. Emphasis is also placed on the school's impact upon the modern Civil Rights Movement. Primary sources such as …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
… educational thought and the establishment of Highlander Folk School; Jim Crow policy in Mississippi and its role in creating a fertile ground for Freedom School development; the immediate context in which the Freedom Schools developed during the Civil Rights Movement, specifically between 1962 …
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Patriots and Fribbles: Effeminacy and Politics in the Literature of the Seven Years’ War and its Aftermath, 1756-1774
… poetry, I argue that the portrayal of the Highlander as heterosexually effeminate enables the articulation of patriotism as heteroerotic balance. Building on this, Chapter Two analyses the sexual and political controversies that mark the early career of the radical Whig politician John …
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Legacy of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of the Cherokee Removal and the Highland Clearances
… of Sutherland, and the reaction of the average Highlander to this loss of protection and parental interest from their chiefs. This work adds to the growing body of literature in the ethnohistorical examination of Celts and Native Americans and in this way shows the universality of colonialism …
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Creative agencies : a model for building community capacity
… and analyses of three initiatives: the Highlander Research and Education Center in eastern Tennessee, Appalshop in eastern Kentucky, and the Village of Arts and Humanities in North Philadelphia. Despite widely varying vehicles for capacity-building - popular education and organizing, …
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Nutritional intake, systemic vascular function and clinical outcome in Bolivian highlanders with Chronic Mountain Sickness
… in CMS sufferers and well-adapted (non-CMS) highlanders has not previously been assessed. <br/>Aim: The aim of the study was to explore the potential relationships between dietary antioxidant nutrient intake, systemic vascular endothelial function and clinical outcomes(cognition and …
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Daniel Frohman and the Lyceum Theatre
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Student Radicalism in Tennessee, 1954-1970
… in the context of Tennessee. The location of Highlander Folk School in Tennessee created a strong connection to Old Left labour activism for the state’s New Left. Student movements both developed more slowly in Tennessee and fractured more slowly. My second argument is that forms of radicalism …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… When compared to Muysken’s description of highlander Quichua in the 1970’s, Spanish loanwords have more than doubled in each category. The overall level of Spanish loanwords in Salcedo Quichua has grown to a level between highlander Quichua in the 1970’s and Media Lengua. Similar to …
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The Highland Charge and the Jacobite Rebellions
… rulers in London. During this period, the Highlanders of Scotland experienced a period of military triumph unlike any other in their history. Through the combination of the ancient tactic of the charge, the use of the broadsword as their primary weapon, and the implementation of the musket, …
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The influence of acute, chronic and lifelong hypoxia on the functional and structural integrity of the neurovascular unit
… Age- and BMI-matched healthy native highlanders of the Altiplano (~4300 m) (n = 9, 27 ± 7 yrs, 26.1 ± 6.0 kg/m<sup>2</sup>) were also examined (<i>life-long HA hypoxia</i>). <i>Experimental measures for Study 1 and 2: </i>Venous blood samples were assayed for biomarkers specific to …
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Grassroots Impacts on the Civil Rights Movement: Christian Women Leaders’ Contributions to the Paradigm Shift in the Tactics of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Its Affiliates
<p>This dissertation examines the historical factors that built grassroots movements during the civil rights era of the United States. These movements were produced by Christian women leaders, and they influenced a crucial transition in the leadership of the civil rights movement. Through their …
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An intellectual history of the School for Designing a Society
This dissertation traces the roots of an experimental art school for social change called the School for Designing a Society. It focuses on the history of a group of intellectuals, and their ideas, during the latter half of the twentieth century. The composer Herbert Brün (1918-2000) formulated …