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Cari Wade Gervin
Highlander Folk School, training ground for civil rights leaders, fights to regain land
This much is not in dispute:?? In 1961, the state of Tennessee took 200 acres of land from Highlander Folk School on Monteagle Mountain in Grundy County. Took, as in confiscated on bogus charges of alcohol sales without a license. But the real reason for the confiscation stemmed from fears of civil rights and union […]