[Libs-Or] Fight over future of library that sparked civil rights ideas

[Max Macias]

[FYI]


> A library where Rosa Parks, John Lewis and other civil rights leaders
> forged strategies that would change the world is mired in controversy over
> who gets to tell its story.
> On one side are preservationists who want to turn the Highlander Folk
> School library into a historic site. On the other, political organizers say
> Highlander never stopped pursuing social justice and should recover the
> building as a stolen part of its legacy.
> Enraged by race-mixing at the Highlander Folk School in the 1950s,
> Tennessee officials confiscated the property and auctioned it off in pieces
> in a vain attempt at stifling the civil rights movement. The library is one
> of the few remaining campus buildings.


The rest of the article can be found here
<https://apnews.com/article/education-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-tennessee-rosa-parks-e65a3f0a4f19013a5ad472c711ae16df>
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