Highlander Folk School

Identifier: Rosa Parks Exhibition
Title: Highlander Folk School
Description: White civil rights advocate Virginia Durr arranged a scholarship for Rosa to attend the August 1955 desegregation workshop at the Highlander Folk School, an interracial training center for labor and civil rights activists in Appalachian Tennessee. She procured Rosa’s round-trip bus ticket from liberal southern publisher Aubrey Williams. Septima Clark, a South Carolina activist-educator, led the two-week workshop and mentored Rosa. Clark founded Highlander’s Citizenship Schools program, which taught thousands of southern blacks literacy and voting rights.
Creator: Ida Berman
Date Created: 1955
Publisher: Library of Congress
Bibliographic Citation: Ida Berman, Highlander Folk School, 1955, Photograph, 1955, Library of Congress.; https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/rosa-parks-in-her-own-words/about-this-exhibition/the-bus-boycott/highlander-folk-school/