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| education in tennessee | |
| history of civil rights in the united states | |
| history of labor relations in the united states | |
| labor schools | |
| monteagle, tennessee | |
| grundy county, tennessee | |
| new market, tennessee | |
| knoxville, tennessee | |
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HISTORY Labor years In the 1930s and 1940s, Highlander's main focus was labor education. Civil rights In the 1950s , the center turned its energy to the issue of Desegregation . Many in the US civil rights movement were involved with Highlander, including Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr . Highlander created the Citizenship Schools , a program later adopted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference . Backlash In response to the work of Center, during the late 1950s the press attacked Highlander for ostensibly creating racial strife. In , the State of Tennessee revoked Highlander's charter and confiscated its land and property. The same year the Highlander staff reincorporated as the Highlander Research and Education Center and moved to Knoxville, Tennessee , where it stayed until 1971 , when it moved to its present (as of 2006 ) location of New Market, Tennessee . Appalachian focus In the 1960s and 1970s, Highlander began to focus on worker health and safety in the coalfields of Appalachia , and played a role in the emergence of the region's Environmental Justice movement. It helped start the Southern Appalachian Leadership Training (SALT) program, and coordinated a survey of land ownership in Appalachia. In the 1980s and 1990s, Highlander broadened from that base into broader regional, national, and international Environmentalism ; Struggles against the negative effects of Globalization ; grassroots leadership development in under-resourced communities; and (beginning in the 1990s) an involvement in LGBT issues, both in the U.S. and internationally. SINCE 2000 Current focuses of Highlander include issues of Democratic Participation , Economic Justice , with a particular focus on youth, immigrants to the U.S. from Latin America, African Americans, and poor white people. DIRECTORS Over time, the directors of Highlander have been:
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