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Highlander 75th Anniversary (August 2007)

Lena Richardson, Tuesday Oct 02, 2007, 12:00 am

Cosponsored with the Highlander Center and Alternate Roots. This session built on previous discussions and followed a one-day institute on cultural organizing as part of the 75th anniversary celebration of the Highlander Center in New Market Tennessee. The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 to serve as an adult education center for community workers involved in social and economic justice movements. The goal of Highlander was and is to provide education and support to poor and working people fighting economic injustice, poverty, prejudice, and environmental destruction. The Center helps grassroots leaders create the tools necessary for building broad-based movements for change. Presenters included: Co-facilitators Anasa Trautman, Highlander Center, Caron Atlas and Javiera Benavente, Arts & Democracy Project; Amelia Kirby, Appalshop; Carlton Turner, Alternate Roots; Michelle Miller, SEIU; Mathew Jones, SNCC Freedom Singers, and Baldemar Velazquez, Farm Labor Organizer Committee.

Judi Jennings, Director of the Kentucky Foundation for Women, and a participant in the gathering, wrote about the celebration in The Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/judi-jennings/a-human-rights-revival-in_b_66656.html

Photos top to bottom: Highlander 75th Anniversary logo, Hot 8 Brass Band, and Maurice Turner, Highlander Board Chair and Carlton Turner, co-founder of M.U.G.A.B.E.E

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