{"id":4012,"date":"2012-03-05T15:42:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T15:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalheritage.org\/?p=4012"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:53","slug":"highlander-folk-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2012\/03\/05\/highlander-folk-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlander Folk School"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 in Monteagle on Tennessee\u2019s Cumberland Plateau.\u00a0 Its founders envisioned an adult education center where mountain people could tackle community problems.\u00a0 Many of those problems involved racial and economic inequalities.\u00a0 Highlander\u2019s efforts to achieve greater equality caused some to label it as a Communist training school.\u00a0 In 1961, acting on those accusations, the state of Tennessee revoked its charter and confiscated its land and buildings.\u00a0 Highlander reorganized as the Highlander Research and Education Center and moved to Knoxville, and later New Market, Tennessee.\u00a0 In 1990, Time Magazine called it one of the South\u2019s most influential institutions of social change.\u00a0 Two years later, it was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Highlanderschool60Mx2.mp3|titles=Highlanderschool60Mx]\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Highlander Folk School was founded in 1932 in Monteagle on Tennessee\u2019s Cumberland Plateau.  Its founders envisioned an adult education center where mountain people could tackle community problems. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[134,181,212,469,519],"class_list":["post-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-institutions","tag-civil-rights","tag-education","tag-folk-school","tag-rosa-parks","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8758,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions\/8758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}