Highlander Center 75th Anniversary August 31, 2007

In 1932, during the Depression, radical Appalachians started a folk school on a Tennessee mountaintop in one of the poorest counties in the country with the goal of using education to help bring about social change. Who knew then that 75 years later grassroots activists would still come to Highlander and return to their communities inspired to do things they hadn't thought possible?

Come celebrate 75 years of Highlander's work for social and economic justice in Appalachia and the South as we focus attention on the history of social justice organizing, help revitalize progressive movement in the region, and propel Highlander and its constituency into the next stage of the fight for democracy and justice.

Celebrate who we have been...

experience who we are...

discover who we will become...

1932-2007...

-Friday, August 31-
Day Long Educational Institutes on:
Popular Education
Cultural Organizing
Participatory Research
Communicating Across Language Barriers

-Saturday, September 1-
Plenaries
Workshops
Conversations
Cultural Performances
Benefit Concert in Knoxville

-Sunday, September 2-
Festival

Official Website: http://www.highlandercenter.org/anniversary