Featured Primary SourceThis is a clipping from the publication “Highlander Folk School: Communist Training School, Monteagle, Tenn." by the Georgia Commission on Education published in 1957. The clipping includes a photograph of the leaders of the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. The text implies their involvement with the infamous Montgomery, Alabama, bus incident and labels them as Communist leadership.
Inspired by Danish Folk Schools, Highlander Folk School was founded by Myles Horton in 1932 near Monteagle, Tenn. The early workshops at Highlander offered education for mine, mill, and timber workers on labor issues, literacy and voter's rights. As the civil rights era emerged, Highlander led workshops on desegregation. As the popularity of the school grew, it attracted civil rights leaders. Because of the school's involvement in southern labor issues and civil rights, it was deemed a Communist training school and was investigated by a Special Investigating Committee of the Tennessee General Assembly, which was created to inquire into alleged subversive activities at the school.
This source meets the 5.50 and US.80 Tennessee social studies standards.
For more primary sources about Civil Rights in Tennessee, be sure to visit our website.
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2020 Summer Teacher Institute
Battle for the Ballot: A Summer Teacher Institute
Sponsors: The Official Committee of the State of Tennessee Woman Suffrage Centennial, Tennessee State Library & Archives, the Tennessee State Museum, and the MTSU Teaching with Primary Sources program
Description: Please join us for a multi-day workshop for Tennessee's educators focused on the story of the women's suffrage movement and the important role Tennessee played in the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
When: June 23-25, 2020
Where: Tennessee State Museum, Nashville
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Spring is Coming!
Enjoy your spring break by exploring one of Tennessee's fifty-six state parks! Get the rest you need to prepare for standardized testing and to meet your instructional goals for the last few months of the school year.
Tennessee Social Studies Standard noted: TN.62
Visit our website for our vast collection of primary sources and other resources. our vast collection of primary sources and other r
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TCSS Annual ConferenceThe Tennessee Council for the Social Studies (TCSS) Annual Conference will be held on March 12-13, 2020 in Franklin, Tenn. at the Franklin Marriott Cool Springs.
March 12, 2020 - Pre-conference workshop and President's reception
March 13, 2020 - TCSS conference with over 36 breakout sessions including our own session, Suffrage Showdown, An Escape Room Adventure at 2:15!
For more information and to access the links to conference and hotel registration, please go to: www.tncss.org.
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DocsBox ReservationsJust a reminder that the Woman Suffrage DocsBoxes are still available, completely free of charge for this school year. To reserve dates for this resource or any of our other DocsBoxes, please visit our website.
Other DocsBox topics include Cotton, the 1920s, World War I, World War II, etc. All DocsBoxes feature educational materials and historical primary sources that supplement the Tennessee social studies curriculum standards.
To cover the cost of shipping (both to and from your school), there is a $25.00 fee per DocsBox. Please note that the Woman Suffrage DocsBox is excluded from fees for the 2019-2020 school year. Each DocsBox has a two-week reservation period. If multiple teachers in a school want to use the DocsBox, it can be reserved for an additional week.
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