Miles today: 300
Total miles: 750
Today, we headed to Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, TN to learn about the center's 75 years of social justice activism. We learned about the center's history of work with labor organizers, civil rights work, and their current work on issues concerning immigration, the environment, and training a new generation of social justice leaders through their work with youth-based initiatives. We were thrilled that Guy and Candie Carawan could stop by to sing a few songs for us. Guy arranged the popular version of the Civil Rights anthem "We Shall Overcome," and both he and Candie have actively worked on Civil Rights-related issues for over 60 years.
Then we went to Knoxville College where alum Cynthia Fleming (now a Civil Rights scholar at UT-Knoxville) spoke with us about Historically Black Colleges and Universities and her experiences as a woman in the Black Power movement in the late 1960s.
After a late lunch, we made our way to Nashville. Brian and I had dinner with a couple of local activists; the students ditched us (not too surprisingly) to explore downtown Nashville on their own.
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