A legacy of equality: Revisiting the Highlander Folk School and its role in the American civil rights movement 

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its leaders, while preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Its inspiring impact on the lives of two participants — one Black, one white — have lessons for today, according to the author of a new book.  For Richard Dillingham in the early 1960s, economic prospects were bleak for a poor white…