"You got to move" research files, 1979-1983.

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"You got to move" research files, 1979-1983.

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Lucy Massie Phenix's research files for "You Got to Move," a documentary about the Highlander Folk School, consisting of correspondence, oral history transcripts, and copies of Highlander Folk School minutes and a copy of the completed film. Major correspondents include Ed Nixon, historian Peter Wood and Myles Horton. Oral histories include interviews with Rosa Parks, Ed Nixon, and Myles Horton and relate to workshops and trainings held at Highlander.

0.6 c.f., and2 film reels (16mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 7913537

Wisconsin Historical Society Archives

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Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005

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Rosa Louis Lee Parks (1913-2005) became an icon of the civil rights movement after she was arrested and jailed for refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus in 1955. Her courage led to the Montgomery bus boycott and eventual court order outlawing segregation and discrimination on buses in that city. She was honored with the Congressional Gold Medal, the United States' highest civilian honor, in July of 1999. ...

Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)

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Recordings (1954-1960) of folk music and of workshops on leadership, integration and voter registration conducted by the school, including a 1956 integration workshop with comments by Rosa Parks on Martin Luther King and the Montgomery bus boycott. Included are performances by Folk School students, Zilphia Horton, Pete Seeger, Guy Carawan, Jack Elliott, Frank Hamilton, and May Justus. Also, a radio interview (ca. 1960) with Septima Clark and school founder Myles Horton. From the desc...

Nixon, Ed

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Phenix, Lucy Massie

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Horton, Myles, 1905-1990

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Myles Horton, founder of the Highlander Folk School (Mounteagle, Tenn.) and civil rights activist. From the description of Myles Horton oral history interview, 1989 Dec. 15. (Georgia State University). WorldCat record id: 38726954 ...