[Xmca-l] Re: The Highlander Center in Tennessee
Andy Blunden
ablunden@mira.net
Mon Aug 25 03:31:45 PDT 2014
Thanks so much for this, Greg,
Listening to the guy (it took me all day to get through this 2 hour
video!) it comes across much clearer than I could get it from various texts.
Around the 48 min mark he tells how this tough union group came up to
Highlander to work through a problem they had, and they came to Horton
and said they wanted him to make the decision for them because they
couldn't resolve it. Horton refused. So they put a gun to his head to
make their point. Still he refused.
I was looking for where/how he *taught* collective decision-making, but
it is clear now, by just insisting that people "take charge of their own
lives" and demanding that while at the Center they run the whole place,
together, and refusing ever to make a decision or tell them what ought
to be done, they learnt how to make collective decisions, in their own way.
In the autumn of 1959, when the students who were later to create SNCC
came to Highlander (as opposed to the unionists CIO had been sending),
this had the particularly spectacular outcomes which I am interested in.
Sorry to be a little cryptic, but it's a work in progress.
Thank you Robert and Peg and Greg for your assistance.
Andy
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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
Greg Thompson wrote:
> and I started watching this nice special titled "Myles Horton: Radical
> Hillbilly":
> http://vimeo.com/30650519
>
> It is a Bill Moyers journal and the nice part about it is most of it
> is Moyers interviewing Horton. From what little I know, it seems to
> give a very good sense for the man.
>
> -greg
>
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:57 PM, Goncu, Artin <goncu@uic.edu
> <mailto:goncu@uic.edu>> wrote:
>
>
>
> Yes, this information is much appreciated. ag
>
>
> On Sun, August 24, 2014 7:29 pm, Andy Blunden wrote:
> > Thanks Greg. That does work better. :)
> > Very tantalizing for me. I have no doubt that everything I need
> is in
> > those boxes. :)
> > Andy
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *Andy Blunden*
> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >
> >
> > Greg Thompson wrote:
> >> I think a "d" was missing at the beginning of the link you sent
> Robert.
> >>
> >> Here is full link:
> >>
> >>
> http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search
> <http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search>
> >>
> <http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search
> <http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search>>
> >>
> >> Fantastic resource!
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> greg
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Robert Lake
> >> <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
> <mailto:boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>
> <mailto:boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
> <mailto:boblake@georgiasouthern.edu>>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Andy and Everyone,
> >> Here is the link to the digital archives for Highlander at the
> >> University
> >> of Wisconsin.
> >>
> >>
> igicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search
> <http://igicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search>
> >>
> <http://igicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search
> <http://igicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=wiarchives&cc=wiarchives&type=simple&rgn=Entire+Finding+Aid&q1=myles+horton+papers&location=all&Submit=Search>>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 10:29 AM, Andy Blunden
> <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
> >> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Robert,
> >> > I have a memoir written by Angeline Butler about her time at
> >> Highlander in
> >> > 1959 before joining SNCC and she reports being taught
> consensus
> >> > decision-making. I know Horton placed a lot of emphasis on
> >> forcing students
> >> > to make their own decisions, and I have a memoir from an
> African
> >> student at
> >> > the International Peoples College at Helsingor on which
> Horton
> >> based
> >> > Highlander, which tells of a specific exercise in consensus
> >> decision
> >> > making. I think it may have come under the heading of
> "conflict
> >> > resolution". What I don't have is any independent
> corroboration
> >> of Angeline
> >> > Butler's testimony and nor do Horton's notes about what
> he learnt
> >> at
> >> > Helsingor mention conflict resolution or any kind of
> >> decision-making.
> >> > Mainly about bonding.
> >> >
> >> > Any thoughts?
> >> > Andy
> >> >
> >>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >> > *Andy Blunden*
> >> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Robert Lake wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Andy,
> >> >> Yes I do. Start with this .
> >> >> http://highlandercenter.org/about-us/history/
> >> >>
> >> >> And this biography of Myles Horton
> >> >>
> >> >>
> http://www.amazon.com/The-Long-Haul-An-Autobiography/dp/0807737003
> >> >> and the biography of Septima Clark.
> >> >>
> >> >> http://www.amazon.com/Freedoms-Teacher-Life-Septima-
> >> >> Clark/dp/0807872229/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=
> >> >> 1408889271&sr=1-2&keywords=septima+clark
> <http://www.amazon.com/
> >> >> Freedoms-Teacher-Life-Septima-Clark/dp/0807872229/ref=sr_1_
> >> >>
> 2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1408889271&sr=1-2&keywords=septima+clark>
> >> >>
> >> >> I have written a piece on her as well and will send it this
> >> afternoon.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I think the book We Make the Road by Walking: A dialogue
> >> between Myles
> >> >> Horton and Paulo Freire
> >> >> is one of the best books on both these leaders.
> >> >>
> >> >> More Later,
> >> >> Robert Lake
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I will send more this afternoon.
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Andy Blunden
> >> <ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>> <mailto:
> >> >> ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
> <mailto:ablunden@mira.net <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>>>> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Does anyone on this list know about the Highlander
> Center,
> >> what
> >> >> used to be called the Highlander Folk School?
> >> >> The people there are very helpful, but they're also
> rushed
> >> off
> >> >> their feet (like everyone, I guess) and if there
> were any
> >> other
> >> >> sources of information about it, that would be
> helpful. I'm
> >> >> particularly interested if anyone is familiar with what
> >> they were
> >> >> doing in the 1950s and 60s.
> >> >>
> >> >> Andy
> >> >> --
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> ------------
> >> >> *Andy Blunden*
> >> >> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >> >> <http://home.pacific.net.au/%7Eandy/>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> *Robert Lake Ed.D.
> >> >> *Associate Professor
> >> >> Social Foundations of Education
> >> >> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
> >> >> Georgia Southern University
> >> >> Secretary/Treasurer-AERA- Paulo Freire Special Interest
> Group
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> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --
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> >> *Robert Lake Ed.D.*Associate Professor
> >> Social Foundations of Education
> >> Dept. of Curriculum, Foundations, and Reading
> >> Georgia Southern University
> >> Secretary/Treasurer-AERA- Paulo Freire Special Interest Group
> >> P. O. Box 8144
> >> Phone: (912) 478-0355 <tel:%28912%29%20478-0355>
> <tel:%28912%29%20478-0355>
> >> Fax: (912) 478-5382 <tel:%28912%29%20478-5382>
> >> Statesboro, GA 30460
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
> >> Assistant Professor
> >> Department of Anthropology
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> >
> >
>
>
> Artin Goncu, Ph.D
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> Professor Emeritus,
> University of Illinois at Chicago
> College of Education M/C 147
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> --
> Gregory A. Thompson, Ph.D.
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> Department of Anthropology
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