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Lizzy Cooper Davis

Culture and Struggle

Culture and Struggle

In July of 1959, armed officials raided the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, during the final night of a weeklong leadership workshop for black and white participants of the burgeoning civil rights movement. They cut off the lights for nearly two hours, searched the building, assaulted some of those
Lizzy Cooper Davis 05 May 2017

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