Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt Champions Women's Rights — page 3
HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL Highlander Folk School was committed to causes including economic justice and an end to racial segregation Courses included literacy leadership and nonviolent desegregation strategies Notable activists including Rosa Parks attended classes there Opponents of its causes tried to close the school They had a pistol in the car They arrived in Monteagle without confronting the Klan In her national newspaper column My Day Roosevelt wrote of her time at Highlander Folk School She had learned about the harsh rules states made for voters of color This included African-American women Women had gained the right to vote in 1920 with the Nineteenth Amendment But state laws in the South made it nearly impossible for African Americans to vote Roosevelt said people of different ethnicities could work together so all Americans could vote