Highlander Research and Education Center

The Highlander Center "was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was and is to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction. We help grassroots leaders create the tools necessary for building broad-based movements for change."

Founded by activist Myles Horton, educator Don West, and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski. James A. Dombrowski


 * Director - Pam McMichael (Other staff)
 * Former Director - Suzanne Pharr (1999-2004)
 * Former Director of Workshops and Chief Fundraiser (1957-60), Septima Clark

Select Staff
Accessed August 2009:

''Education Team


 * Mónica Hernández
 * Tufara Waller Muhammad
 * Roberto Tijerina
 * Elandria Williams
 * Susan Williams

Directors
Accessed August 2009:


 * Scott Bates, Emeritus
 * Jefferson C. Boyer
 * Millie Buchanan
 * Stephen L. Fisher
 * Douglas A. Gamble - Building & Grounds Committee Chair
 * JoJo Geronimo
 * Erika Gonzalez - Board Vice-Chair
 * Jereann King - Resource Committee Chair
 * Amelia Kirby
 * Sireesha Manne - Education Committee Chair
 * Fatma E. Marouf - Finance & Audit Committee Chair; Board Treasurer
 * Rosalyn Pelles
 * Charles Price
 * Eric Tang
 * Maurice Turner - Board Chair
 * Elizabeth Veazey
 * Hollis Watkins, Sr., Emeritus
 * Cassandra O. Welchin
 * Handel Wright - Personnel Committee Chair

Directors, November 2004

 * Amancio Alicante - Nominations Committee Chair
 * Scott Bates, Emeritus
 * Marta Benavides
 * Jefferson C. Boyer
 * Millie Buchanan
 * Hubert Dixon - We Shall Overcome Committee Chair
 * Stephen L. Fisher
 * Douglas A. Gamble - Building & Grounds Committee Chair
 * Erika Gonzalez - Board Vice-Chair
 * Marisol Jimenez-McGee
 * Jereann King - Resource Committee Chair
 * Amelia Kirby
 * Sireesha Manne - Education Committee Chair
 * Fatma E. Marouf - Finance & Audit Committee Chair; Board Treasurer
 * Neil G. McBride
 * Rosalyn Pelles
 * Charles Price
 * Dennis L. Serrette
 * Lewis Sinclair, Emeritus
 * Eric Tang
 * Maurice Turner- Board Chair
 * Hollis Watkins, Sr., Emeritus
 * Handel Wright - Personnel Committee Chair

Related Publications

 * Thomas Bledsoe, Or We’ll all Hang Separately, The Highlander Idea (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969).
 * Frank Adams, with Mr. Myles Horton, Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander (Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1975).
 * 3Myles Horton with Herbert Kohl and Judith Kohl, The Long Haul, An Autobiography (New York: Doubleday, 1990).
 * Eliot Wigginton, ed., Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grass Roots Social Activism in America (New York: Doubleday, 1991).
 * John M. Glenn, Highlander: No Ordinary School (Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1996).
 * Jacqueline A. Rouse, "We Seek to Know...In Order to Speak the Truth: Nurturing the Seeds of Discontent--Septima P. Clark and Participatory Leadership" In Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklin, Sisters in the Struggle: African American women in the civil rights-black power movement (New York University Press, 2001).
 * Angela Smith, "Myles Horton, Highlander Folk School and the Wilder Coal Strike of 1932" (PDF, 681 KB), 2003.

Contact

 * Web: http://www.highlandercenter.org

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 * Community Shares of Tennessee
 * Southern Rural Development Initiative
 * Emil Schwarzhaupt Foundation
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