Few people want to talk about exactly what went wrong - how exactly the meeting devolved. They would devise a plan - like the heroes of the civil rights movement once had decades before. Here, in the hills of Tennessee, the activists would come together for a meeting of groups involved in the Movement for Black Lives, an umbrella group of organizations that want the same things, and devise a plan to address the new president, the shock of his election, the law and order he had promised during the campaign, and the devastating blow it all had delivered to generational movements about race and criminal justice policy in the United States. This would be the time for decisive action, undergirded by a clear strategy. (A representative for the Black Lives Matter Global Network disputed that Garza attended the meeting.) Protests had already dominated the news for days. Top activists in the movement - like Alicia Garza, cofounder of the Black Lives Matter network of organizations (a namesake group), Charlene Carruthers of the Black Youth Project 100, and others - met to privately discuss how to move forward in Trump’s America.
That’s why shortly after the 2016 election, on November 18, 16 Black Lives Matter leaders selected it as the place to gather. first heard Pete Seeger sing “We Shall Overcome.” On his way to the airport after the anniversary of what was then known as the Highlander Folk School, King proclaimed, “There’s something about that song that haunts you.” Highlander has since moved farther east, but its mission remains the same. It was there, in 1957, that a young Martin Luther King Jr. People like Rosa Parks, John Lewis, and Ralph Abernathy refined their organizing skills at Highlander. CNN Sans ™ & © 2016 Cable News Network.The Highlander Research and Education Center is one of the unsung mileposts of the struggle for civil rights. Market holidays and trading hours provided by Copp Clark Limited. All content of the Dow Jones branded indices Copyright S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC and/or its affiliates.
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