Unearthing Seeds Of Fire The Idea Of Highlander [Paperback]

Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justice, equality and sustainability, supporting their efforts to take collective action to shape their own destiny. Through popular education, participatory research, and cultural work, we help create spaces  at Highlander and in local communities  where people gain knowledge, hope and courage, expanding their ideas of what is possible. We develop leadership and help create and support strong, democratic organizations that work for justice, equality and sustainability in their own communities and that join with others to build broad movements for social, economic and restorative environmental change.Frank Adams worked at Highlander Folk School while he was writing?Unearthing Seeds of Fire, trying to learn to do Highlander as well as describe it. He has been a newspaperman, truck driver, one-time college dropout, cobbler, and farm laborer. He graduated from Goddard College, earned a masters degree in the Arts of Teaching at Antioch-Putney Graduate School in Vermont and Yellow Springs, Ohio, and obtained a doctorate in education from Walden University in Naples, Florida. He died in 2017. Myles was born July 5, 1905, in Savannah, Tennessee. Myles Horton entered Cumberland College in Tennessee in 1924 and almost immediately led a student revolt against the hazing of freshmen by fraternities.But it was a summer job in 1927, when he was teaching Bible-school classes to poor mountain people in Ozone, Tennessee, for the Presbyterian Church, that led him in his lifelong work: to build a school that would help people learn to transform the impoverished and oppressed conditions of mountain life. In his senior year at Cumberland and after graduation in 1928, he began organizing interracial meetings of the YMCA.Myles began many years of searching for a plan of action. At the urging of a minister and friend, he attended Union TheololóÑ