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Category: Folk Schools

spelling bee contestants collaged
June 1, 2021 Educators/teachers / Folk Schools / Kentucky

How Kentucky culture spawned the National Spelling Bee

The National Spelling Bee began in Kentucky. A look at the culture that spawned the event tells why that should be no surprise.

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In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr., left, attended a weekend event in honor of the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School.
January 7, 2018 Folk Schools / Social Activism / Tennessee

A school for subversives and Communists?

Highlander Folk School for years was the only place in the South where white and African-American adults could live and work together.

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olive campbell and students
October 19, 2017 Folk Schools / North Carolina

To make their life in the country better

This course is designed to help young people take advantage of their natural powers and to make their life in the country better, more efficient and more interesting.

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study circle based on danish folk school model
March 31, 2016 Folk Schools / North Carolina

I sing behind the plough!

Olive Dame Campbell (1882-1954) co-founded, with Marguerite Butler, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC in 1925.

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1944 litho of pete seeger
January 29, 2014 Folk Schools

‘Who are you intending to overcome?’ A talk with Pete Seeger

“We’ll overcome our tendencies to solve our problems with killing and learn to work together to bring this world together.”

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