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Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change

Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change John Egerton Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1994, pp. 5-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0122 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437175/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:14 GMT from JHU Libraries Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change John Egerton In the long and traumatic decade of the Great Depression, the South bore the brunt of an economic and social catastrophe that reached into every corner of the nation. But as surely as it staggered the pillar institutions of Dixie, the Depression also spawned a grass-roots impulse for progressive social change that would be felt time and time again in the decades to come. One of the several home-grown social movements of the 1930s that departed in unconventional and controversial ways from the prevailing dogma on such issues as labor, race, class, and gender was the High- lander Folk School. Highlander Folk School Highlander got its start in the fall of 1932 when Myles Horton and Don West leased a house and two hundred acres near Monteagle, Tennessee, from Lilian Johnson, a wealthy native of Memphis http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change

Egerton, John
Appalachian Review , Volume 22 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change John Egerton Appalachian Heritage, Volume 22, Number 1, Winter 1994, pp. 5-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1994.0122 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/437175/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:14 GMT from JHU Libraries Highlander in the Thirties: An Appalachian Seedbed for Social Change John Egerton In the long and traumatic decade of the Great Depression, the South bore the brunt of an economic and social catastrophe that reached into every corner of the nation. But as surely as it staggered the pillar institutions of Dixie, the Depression also spawned a grass-roots impulse for progressive social change that would be felt time and time again in the decades to come. One of the several home-grown social movements of the 1930s that departed in unconventional and controversial ways from the prevailing dogma on such issues as labor, race, class, and gender was the High- lander Folk School. Highlander Folk School Highlander got its start in the fall of 1932 when Myles Horton and Don West leased a house and two hundred acres near Monteagle, Tennessee, from Lilian Johnson, a wealthy native of Memphis

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