Parks’s famous act of protest was no snap decision. Earlier that year, she had attended a strategy session on racial desegregation at the Highlander Folk School, in Grundy County, Tennessee. The school had been founded in 1932, right at the peak of the Appalachian craft revival, but Highlander had pursued a different path from the John C. Campbell Folk School or the Penland School of Craft. Its founder, a white Tennessean named Myles Horton, had been to Denmark and was inspired by the Scandinavian folkehojskøler he saw there, just like Olive Campbell. And the school did offer instruction in
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