A fight is brewing in Tennessee over a legendary civil rights and labor organizing center whose alumni and supporters include Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt
This 2021 photo shows library building of Highlander Folk School in New Market, Tenn. A fight is brewing in Tennessee over the legacy of a legendary social justice school that counts Rosa Parks among its alumni and Eleanor Roosevelt among its supporters. One of the few buildings left is the Highlander library. Preservationists restored the building and want it listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
David Currey, a board member at the Tennessee Preservation Trust, has managed the library's restoration since the trust bought the site in 2014, saving it from redevelopment. He said his goal has always been to preserve the site so that visitors can learn about the momentous events that happened there in the first half of the 20th Century. There would be few books or movies if stories could only be told by those directly involved, he said, and “Nobody owns the past.
Currey, who is white, frames the issue much differently. He says the trust stepped in to preserve the property when no one else would, and plans to celebrate Highlander's past accomplishments. Parks attended a Highlander workshop a few months before refusing to move to the back of a segregated city bus in Montgomery, Alabama."It was one of the few times in my life up to that point when I did not feel hostility from white people,” she wrote in her autobiography.
“The property was stolen from us because it was bringing Black and white people together to preserve democracy,” Henderson said. “The land should be repatriated, back to the Highlander Folk School, which is now the Highlander Research and Education Center.”
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