Highlander Folk School

Josh MacPhee, organizer

born 1973

Stumptown Printers, printer

founded 1999

Lindsay Draws, artist

Highlander Folk School, 2005

Portfolio/Series title: Celebrate People's History Poster Series

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: color offset lithograph

Dimensions:
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 435 x 282 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 17 1/8 x 11 1/8 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Elmer F. Pierson Fund

Accession number: 2016.0124.031

Not on display

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The Highlander Folk School in Tennessee initially focused its curriculum on manual labor skills and adult education. By the early 1950s, however, it shifted attention to race relations, teaching African Americans their rights as citizens while promoting basic literacy skills. The school was one of the few places in the South where integrated meetings could take place, and it served as a site of leadership training for southern Civil Rights activists. Rosa Parks attended a workshop at Highlander four months before famously refusing to give up her bus seat.