highlander research and education center
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Highlighting the Contributions of an 'Unknown Unknown' This Women’s History Month
The great journalist and civil rights activist, Ida B. Wells once said, “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” This Women’s History Month, I want to turn the light of truth on three women whose lives intersected to right the wrong of segregated public transportation. These women deserve…
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Fire Burns Down Main Building of Historic Civil Rights Space, the Highlander Center
Early Friday morning, a building at the Highlander Research and Education Center, one of the nation’s oldest social justice institutions and training spaces, in New Market, Tenn., was engulfed in flames and burned to the ground. A press release from Highlander notes that only one building was burned (one out of 10 on the organization’s…