Highlander: No Ordinary School 1932-1962

and racial justice during a critical era in southern and Appalachian history. This volume is the first comprehensive examination of that extraordinary-and often controversial-institution. Founded in 1932 by Myles Horton and Don West near Monteagle, Tennessee, this adult education center was both a vital resource for southern radicals and a catalyst for several major movements for social change. During its thirty-year history it served as a community folk school, as a training center for souther

Author: John M. Glen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780813152806

About the Author

John M. Glen is assistant professor of history at Ball State University.

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