The Highlander Center, which hosted civil rights figures including the Rev. No one was injured, but the fire destroyed the office, which housed what the center said was decades worth of historical documents, speeches, artifacts and other memorabilia from its history, including the era of the civil rights movement. We have seen this symbol associated with different groups.”[The white flight of Derek Black]Chelsea Fuller, a spokeswoman for Highlander, told the Associated Press that the symbol “looks like a tic-tac-toe board." White supremacist groups have made incursions into Tennessee, according to the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights, which tracks hate groups. The Highlander Center was founded in 1932 as the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle in southeastern Tennessee, whose purpose was organizing unemployed and working-class people, according to its website.

Source: Washington Post April 03, 2019 02:54 UTC