Celebrate Highlander’s 80th Anniversary: Rosa Parks & Septima Clark auction item, Bay Area 80th Anniversary house party
If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Highlander and civil rights history, now is your chance. As part of Highlander’s 80th Anniversary, we are auctioning a poster containing the original signatures of both Septima Clark and Rosa Parks. Septima Clark first came to Highlander as a workshop participant and soon after became the Director of Integration Workshops. Clark later became the director of the Citizenship School program and helped organize and spread citizenship schools across the South. Rosa Parks, known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” attended a workshop at Highlander in the summer of 1955 […]
Celebrate Highlander’s 80th Anniversary: Rosa Parks & Septima Clark auction item, Bay Area 80th Anniversary house party
If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of Highlander and civil rights history, now is your chance. As part of Highlander’s 80th Anniversary, we are auctioning a poster containing the original signatures of both Septima Clark and Rosa Parks. Septima Clark first came to Highlander as a workshop participant and soon after became the Director of Integration Workshops. Clark later became the director of the Citizenship School program and helped organize and spread citizenship schools across the South. Rosa Parks, known as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” attended a workshop at Highlander in the summer of 1955 […]
Inspiring new books – Available online from the Highlander Bookstore
Living Social Justice in Appalachia by Helen M. Lewis, Edited by Patricia D. Beaver and Judith Jennings, University of Kentucky Press Often referred to as the leader of inspiration in Appalachian studies, Helen Matthews Lewis linked scholarship with activism and encouraged deeper analysis of the region. Lewis shaped the field of Appalachian studies by emphasizing community participation and challenging traditional perceptions of the region and its people. This book connects Lewis’s works to wider social movements by examining the history of progressive activism in Appalachia, including her long connection to the Highlander Center. 260 pages. 2012 $40.00 You can see […]
Highlander Workshop Develops New Tools for Understanding Race and Globalization
Developing popular education tools that help communities talk about the intersection of race, migration and globalization is critically important, especially in the U.S. South. A predominantly Black and white region still unresolved around race, the South has experienced dramatic demographic change due to immigration in the past twenty years, contributing to cross-race tensions and challenges. In addition, what happens in the South, good or bad, affects the rest of the country and therefore the world. The Civil Rights Movement shook the racist underpinnings of U.S. society and led to public policy that made life better for everybody, including low-income and […]
For Teachers Interested in Social Change
Teachers interested in social change – Buy your new “Education for Liberation” planner book today! Designed to help teachers translate their vision of a just education into concrete classroom activities. Order your copy from the Highlander Bookstore.
New Books on Economics and Teaching at the Highlander Bookstore
Highlander is happy to announce two new books for sale through our bookstore for activists, popular educators, and others concerned with social justice. ECONOMICS FOR EVERYONE: A SHORT GUIDE TO THE ECONOMICS OF CAPITALISM by Jim Stanford, Economist for the Canadian Auto Workers; $25.00 Wondering about how the economy works – or doesn’t? This book is for you. Economics for Everyone is punchy and readable, with short, bite-sized chapters, and illustrated with cartoons and flow charts by renowned political cartoonist Tony Biddle. Best of all, it is completely free of technical jargon and mathematics. As Stanford notes in this book, […]
New Articles about Appalachia
Check out these two new articles about Appalachia: “ A President Breaks Hearts in Appalachia” by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (Washington Post) explores the impact of mountaintop removal on Appalachia and challenges the Obama administration to take action to stop it. In Kennedy’s words, Mountaintop removal coal mining is the worst environmental tragedy in American history. When will the Obama administration finally stop this Appalachian apocalypse? “What Happens When You Don’t Own the Land” by Chuck Shuford (Daily Yonder) focuses on the connection between coal mining and poverty in Appalachia. As Shuford demonstrates, The region’s immense wealth found in timber and […]
Rockwood Institute's "Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders" Returning to Highlander: October 4-7, 2009
Highlander is proud to announce that we are once again collaborating with the Rockwood Leadership Institute to bring Rockwood’s widely praised “Art of Leadership” training to the South on October 4-7, 2009. This is a special invitation to join a select community of social change leaders in creating and sustaining compelling visions for their organizations, dealing more effectively with organizational challenges, and building a broad-based network of progressive leaders committed to shaping a more just and sustainable society. The four-day intensive seminar is designed to teach powerful visioning, listening, speaking, presentation, coaching, teambuilding, and feedback skills to emerging and established […]
Rockwood Institute’s “Art of Leadership for Southern Leaders” Returning to Highlander: October 4-7, 2009
Highlander is proud to announce that we are once again collaborating with the Rockwood Leadership Institute to bring Rockwood’s widely praised “Art of Leadership” training to the South on October 4-7, 2009. This is a special invitation to join a select community of social change leaders in creating and sustaining compelling visions for their organizations, dealing more effectively with organizational challenges, and building a broad-based network of progressive leaders committed to shaping a more just and sustainable society. The four-day intensive seminar is designed to teach powerful visioning, listening, speaking, presentation, coaching, teambuilding, and feedback skills to emerging and established […]
"Building Immigrant Leaders in the South" – Highlander's Immigrant Leadership Institute
Highlander is pleased to announce the publication of “Building Immigrant Leaders in the South: INDELI 2004-06,” the final report of our immigrant leadership institute. From October 2004 to October 2006, Highlander implemented the Institute for Immigrant Leadership Development (Instituto para el Desarrollo del Liderazgo Inmigrante, or INDELI, in Spanish) to promote and support the effort of Latin@ immigrant organizing in the Southeast through leadership development, political education and strengthening immigrant-led grassroots organizations. This report describes and evaluates INDELI, provides feedback from participants and offers some recommendations and best practices for those wishing to implement similar programs. Among the most compelling […]