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Tennessee Voices, Episode 315: Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and Allyn Maxfield-Steele, Highlander...
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCivil rights leaders including Rosa Parks learned how to become effective organizers and advocates...
Why the Highlander Center opposes historic designation: ‘The mic is being removed from us’
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFor 90 years, the Highlander Research and Education Center has helped to train laborers, civil...
Highlander Center celebrates 90 years of strengthening Southern freedom movements | Opinion
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years ago"There’s a New World Coming” is a song, a promise, and a call to action. It’s also the theme of the...
Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1957 Tennessee visit sparked a movement - and rankled the FBI
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoHe had a dream. But years before Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood gazing into the sea of onlookers...
Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA library where Rosa Parks, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders forged strategies that would...
How the Appalachian African American Cultural Center is preserving Black history
WJHL Tri-Cities via Yahoo News· 2 months agoPENNINGTON GAP, Va. (WJHL) – In the mountains of Pennington Gap, the Appalachian African American...
Knox News' Angela Dennis on CNN program
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWelcome to "Your Week in Knoxville," a weekly note only for subscribers from Knox News editor Joel Christopher. Five of our top stories from the week are always highlighted at the bottom of ...
