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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 4, 2019

The history of the Highlander dates back to 1932 when founders Michael Horton and Don West established the school, a place that taught literacy and fought for justice and equality. It would later host prominent civil rights leaders such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. and Septima Clark. Now a new play at the University of Tennessee will recapture the vision behind the school and some of the key events in its history, WBIR reports. The play opens tonight.