{"id":75,"date":"2019-04-20T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2022-05-17T07:17:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:17:40","slug":"highlander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Highlander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Highlander_Folk_School_-_Annemarie_Schwarzenbach_-_SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-115-286x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-76\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Highlander_Folk_School_-_Annemarie_Schwarzenbach_-_SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-115-286x300.jpg 286w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Highlander_Folk_School_-_Annemarie_Schwarzenbach_-_SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-115-768x805.jpg 768w, https:\/\/storiesofappalachia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Highlander_Folk_School_-_Annemarie_Schwarzenbach_-_SLA-Schwarzenbach-A-5-10-115-977x1024.jpg 977w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee, outside Knoxville, was in the news recently when one of the buildings there was burned.\u00a0 Fire investigators found a white power symbol in the ashes of that building.\u00a0 Today we&#8217;re going to tell you just why that might have been as we share the story of Highlander&#8217;s history in the civil rights movement of the 1950&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s, as well as in labor struggles in Appalachia.<\/p>\n<p>You can subscribe to the Stories podcast at RadioPublic, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and many other podcast apps.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re on Facebook @storiesofappalachia and on Twitter @storyappalachia.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening and sharing our stories with your friends&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Picture of Myles Horton by Annemarie Schwarzenbach &#8211; 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