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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Highlander Folk School"”.
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Educating for freedom: the Highlander Folk School in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954 to 1964
This study explores 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 …
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Faith in Action: The First Citizenship School on Johns Island, South Carolina.
<p>This thesis examines the first Citizenship School, its location, participants, and success. Johns Islanders, Esau Jenkins, Septima 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 …
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Educating for social change: The history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, 1932-1964
This thesis documents how the Freedom Schools, an historical example of radical education, developed in Mississippi in 1964 and postulates why Freedom Schools developed in their particular social, economic, and political context. My analysis begins with Myles Horton, a radical educator in Tennessee …
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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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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
… were essentially based on the Citizenship School, and Christian women leaders trained the major civil rights activists of these movements. This dissertation identifies the contributions of the women leaders’ Citizenship School as key to these successes during the civil rights movement.</p>