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Myles Horton was born this day in Savannah Tennessee. Myles Horton was one of the main founders of Highlander, and he would serve as its director from its founding in 1932 to 1969.
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Don West was born this day in northern Georgia. He would serve as one of the cofounders of Highlander.
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Over 12 million shares were sold on the New York Stock Exchange. This event combined with another mass stock sell off 5 days later is considered the start of the Great Depression.
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Myles Horton, Don West, and James Dombrowski founded Highlander this day in 1932. -
President Truman signed a executive order which ordered the integration of the military.
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This landmark Supreme Court case ended racial segregation in public schools. Scotus ruled that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional. This case paved the way to equal rights and desegregation.
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In 1955 Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to change seats in a bus in Montgomery, AL, a city wide boycott of the buses were held. It lasted 382 days, and it resulted in the integration of the Montgomery buses after a federal court found that segregation was unconstitutional. This boycott resulted in a huge increase of activism and many people would join the civil rights movement.
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On this day Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. It outlaws discrimination based on race, religion, sex, color, and national origin. It ended Jim Crow and all of the related discriminatory laws. There would be several amendments in later years such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Act in 1972.
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MLK Jr. was assassinated in Memphis TN. He was there in support of striking sanitation workers.
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After being shutdown in 1961, Highlander Folk School occupied several different sites in the 1960s. They moved into a new site outside of Knoxville Tennessee in 1972 where they have been since.