Helen Matthews Lewis papers 1894-2000.
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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.
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Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.)
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Myles Horton founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education institution based on the principle of empowerment. Horton and other School members worked towards mobilizing labor unions in the 1930s and Citizenship Schools during the civil rights movement beginning in the late 1950s. They worked with Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Guy and Candie Carawan, Septima Clark, and Rosa Parks, among others. In 1959, t...
Lewis, Helen Matthews.
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Dr. Helen Matthews Lewis is considered to be one of the founders of Appalachian Studies. Participated in interracial civil rights activities in the 1940s. Lectured at several institutions of higher education in the Appalachian region. Worked as an assistant professor at East Tennessee State University, the Appalachian Ministries Educational Resource Center and as the interim director of Berea College's Appalachian Center. From 1977 to 1997, she worked at the Highlander Research and Educational C...
