Highlander Folk School Archives - Appalachian History

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.

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

Helen Lewis on her early days teaching Appalachian Studies: “I started receiving threats because of the work I was doing with my students.”

“A Hard Journey” brings to life Don West, poet, ordained Congregationalist minister, labor organizer, educator, leftist activist.