Documentaries in the Library September 18

You Got to Move

You Got To Move illustrates various efforts at social community organizations to effect change including the civil rights education projects at Highlander, and citizen’s actions against toxic waste dumping and strip mining in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Pam McMichael, Highlander Director

Pam is a Kentucky native and long time social justice activist in her home community of Louisville. She is a co-founder of SONG, Southerners on New Ground and for eight years served as co-director of the organization. For two decades now, Pam’s organizing and cultural work have focused on connecting people and issues across difficult divides with particular focus on helping build a strong anti-racist movement. She has extensive nonprofit administrative and management experience in both social change and social service organizations, and is a national fellow with the Rockefeller Foundation’s leadership project to address the growing crisis in U.S. democracy.

Selected Bibliography

BOOKS

Adams, Frank. Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander. Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1975. LC5301.M65A3

Ayers, William, Jean Ann Hunt, and Therese Quinn, eds. Teaching for Social Justice: A Democracy and Education Reader. New York: New Press, 1998. LC191.4 .T42 1998

Bledsoe, Thomas. Or We’ll All Hang Separately: The Highlander Idea. Boston: Beacon Press, 1969. H67.H5B5

Education, Participation, and Power: Essays in Theory and Practice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Educational Review, 1976. LC191.E425

Environment and Development in the USA: A Grassroots Report for UNCED. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1992. TD194 .E58 1992

Fisher, Stephen, ed. Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and Change. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. HN79.A127F54 1993

Glen, John. Highlander: No Ordinary School. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996. LC5301.M65G55 1996

Glen, John. On the Cutting Edge: A History of the Highlander Folk School, 1932-1962. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1987. LC5301.M65G55 1985

Highlander Research and Education Center: An Approach to Education Presented Through a Collection of Writings, December, 1989. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1989. LC5301 .H550 1989

Horton, Aimee. The Highlander Folk School: A History of its Major Programs, 1932-1961. Brooklyn, NY: Carlson Pub., 1989. LC5301.M65H67 1989

Horton, Myles. The Long Haul: An Autobiography. New York: Doubleday, 1990. LC5301.M65H69 1990

Horton, Myles and Paulo Freire. We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters, eds. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990. LB885.H64 W4 1990

Jacobs, Dale, ed. The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2003. LB885.H64M954 2003

Merrifield, Juliet. We’re Tired of Being Guinea Pigs!: A Handbook for Citizens on Environmental Health in Appalachia. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1980. TD170.W460

Norris, Lachelle and Janice Morrissey. Dumping Grounds: Case Studies of the Waste Industry in Rural America. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1993. TD788.4.S9D57 1993

Wigginton, Eliot, ed. Refuse to Stand Silently By: An Oral History of Grass Roots Social Activism in America, 1921-64. New York: Doubleday, 1991. HN57 .R38 1991

Williams, Lee. Grassroots Participatory Research: A Working Report from a Gathering of Practitioners. Knoxville, TN: Community Partnership Center, University of Tennessee, 1997. H62 .W53 1997

Witt, Matt. In Our Blood: Four Coal Mining Families. Washington: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1979. TN805.A5W67

GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Tennessee General Assembly Joint Committee to Investigate Highlander Folk School. Committee report to the members of the 81st session of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee at Nashville, Tennessee. Nashville, 1959. J87 .T212

United States Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI File: Highlander Folk School, Microfilm. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1990. LC5301.M65F355 1990

VIDEOS

You Got to Move: Stories of Change in the South, VHS. Produced by Lucy Phenix. New York: First Run, 1985. LC5301.M65Y68 1985

The Telling Takes Me Home, DVD. Produced, directed, and edited by Heather Carawan n.p.: Heatcar Productions, 2005. M1977 .C47T44 2005