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Highlander Folk School
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Highlander Folk School, New Market, Tenn.; founded in 1932 by Myles Horton in Monteagle, Tenn., now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center. At first the school focused on training union organizers, but in the 1950s Highlander became a center of the civil-rights civil rights, rights that a nation's inhabitants enjoy by law. The term is broader than "political rights," which refer only to rights devolving from the franchise and are held usually only by a citizen, and unlike "natural rights," civil rights have a legal as well
..... Click the link for more information.  movement. Monteagle officials revoked the school's charter in 1960, but Horton relocated, first to Knoxville and then to New Market. In the 1980s the school's focus shifted to balancing environmental concerns with the struggle for economic recovery in the South.
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based Highlander Research and Education Center, an institution founded in 1932 to provide education and support to people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction.
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