ABSTRACT
When the late civil-rights activist Rosa Parks was asked what the Highlander Folk School of Tennessee had to do with her decision to sit down at the front of the bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in early December 1955, she replied, “Everything” (Hurst 1997). Highlander was one of the very few places, if not the only place, in the southern United States during the early civil-rights struggles where whites and blacks could get together to become acquainted, learn, and strategize ways to make some badly needed social changes.
