[Xmca-l] Re: The Highlander Center in Tennessee
Robert Lake
boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
Sat Aug 30 14:03:12 PDT 2014
Dear XCMA family.
I will be honoured to write a review piece if the deadline is reasonable no
one else has agreed to do it so far.
Robert Lake
Oitn Saturday, August 30, 2014, mike cole <lchcmike@gmail.com> wrote:
> Your idea sounds like a real good idea to me, Andy- I am pretty sure
> there are others around XMCA with interesting connections to
> Highlander. The topic is certainly relevant to discussions of
> poverty and education, and a lot more of interest to this list.
> mike
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > Well, there certainly is a lot to be said about Highlander!
> > I would be very willing to participate in a collaborative effort to
> recall
> > this amazing institution to MCA readers. As it happens, its current
> > incarnation, the Highlander Research and Education Center, is celebrating
> > the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer next month, but one of the
> > astounding features of this place is that it has survived alive through
> 82
> > years in the heart of Dixie teaching radical democracy to integrated
> > classes and taking its students out on to picket lines and voter
> > registration drives as part of their "course work". Absolutely
> astounding.
> > It is also a "design experiment" inasmuch as Myles Horton used it to
> > "experiment" to develop his methods of social change. And a rare case in
> > which a school has literally changed history, and consciously so.
> > But the fact is that I am a foreigner who only learnt that this place
> > existed a couple of weeks ago. Robert Lake on the other hand does know a
> > lot about it, and maybe Helena Worthen would like to contribute. The
> larger
> > context in which it has arisen in my research may just be too large to
> > introduce into a review article which does Highlander justice, but I
> could
> > add a line or too on that if Robert could write the bulk of it.
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *Andy Blunden*
> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> >
> >
> > mike cole wrote:
> >
> >> This entire line of discussion, including Highlander and Septima seems
> >> ripe for a kind of review essay for MCA. Might a couple of you involved
> in
> >> recuperating this important history consider creating a survey/ guide
> for
> >> the rest of us?
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> On Friday, August 29, 2014, Robert Lake <boblake@georgiasouthern.edu
> <javascript:;>
> >> <mailto:boblake@georgiasouthern.edu <javascript:;>>> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi
> >> Andy,
> >> I am so glad you are intrigued by Septima's role in the formation
> >> of SNCC .
> >> She was often overlooked in the chauvinist culture of the times
> >> (both white
> >> and black) and that is why began researching her life. Most people
> see
> >> recognize Rosa Parks and Ella Baker's role and later those who were
> >> credited for the "Freedom School curriculum
> >> ". If you look at Clark's life and the manner and content of what
> she
> >> taught on John's Island and other parts of South Carolina,
> >> you can easily recognize that her work was seminal in the
> >> formation of the
> >> Freedom School Curriculum.
> >>
> >> I have tried to get permission to reprint Septima's autobiography
> >> from her
> >> family, but I have been unsuccessful. The book by Cynthia Brown
> >> *Ready
> >> from Within *has a lot of primary source interviews. Catherine
> Mellon
> >> Charon's book, *Septima Clark: Freedom's Teacher *is richly
> >> detailed with
> >> many interviews of her friends and documents from primary sources
> >> from the
> >> University of Wisconsin Highlander collection.
> >>
> >> Here is a link to a recorded interview with Septima that may be
> >> useful to
> >> you. I enjoyed hearing her voice at least.
> >>
> >> http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/G-0017/menu.html
> >>
> >> *Robert*
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Aug 29, 2014 5:05 AM, "Andy Blunden" <ablunden@mira.net
> <javascript:;>
> >> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >>
> >> > So you are placing Septima Clark right up there in importance,
> >> Robert.
> >> > I am part way through a "chronicle" of Highlander, called
> >> "Highlander. No
> >> > Ordinary school, 1932-1962". It is very useful for me, so I can
> get
> >> > everything in sequence. So here I discovered that Septima Clark
> >> was in
> >> > charge of the discussions with the students who later joined
> >> SNCC. So she
> >> > is coming into focus for me. I have just ordered two books on her,
> >> > including the one you recommended. Unfortuantely, an
> >> autobiography she
> >> > wrote in 1962 seems to be out of print and entirely unavailable
> now.
> >> >
> >> > Andy
> >> >
> >> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >> ------------
> >> > *Andy Blunden*
> >> > http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
> >> <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 <javascript:;> <javascript:;> <mailto:
> >> >> ablunden@mira.net <javascript:;> <javascript:;>>> 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/>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> --
> >> >> *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
> >> >> Fax: (912) 478-5382
> >> >> Statesboro, GA 30460
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >
>
--
*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
Fax: (912) 478-5382
Statesboro, GA 30460
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