Social Movement Schools
Abstract
The Highlander Folk School became known to 1960s activist its pioneering experimental work with "freedom schools," the grass-roots academies held in churches, beauty parlors, and ho the South, that observers agree were crucial to the cognitive lib made the civil rights movement possible (Morris, 1984; McAda Less well known are Highlander's earlier struggles nurturing ind ionism in the South during the 1930s. Highlander is one of many organizations that facilitates progressive collective action among indigenous groups, one of those that Aldon Morris has dubbed "movement halfway houses." In this review we consider Highlander's miraculous longevity in contrast to the seemingly typical instability among this class of organizations by comparing it with the experience of the "labor colleges." These schools offer examples of the little understood phenomena of movement mentoring organizations.
Abstract
The Highlander Folk School became known to 1960s activist its pioneering experimental work with "freedom schools," the grass-roots academies held in churches, beauty parlors, and ho the South, that observers agree were crucial to the cognitive lib made the civil rights movement possible (Morris, 1984; McAda Less well known are Highlander's earlier struggles nurturing ind ionism in the South during the 1930s. Highlander is one of many organizations that facilitates progressive collective action among indigenous groups, one of those that Aldon Morris has dubbed "movement halfway houses." In this review we consider Highlander's miraculous longevity in contrast to the seemingly typical instability among this class of organizations by comparing it with the experience of the "labor colleges." These schools offer examples of the little understood phenomena of movement mentoring organizations.
