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The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

This book brings together two figures who, as activists and educationist, have revealed a lifelong commitment to transformative radical adult education. Both Myles Horton and Paulo Freire have a lot in common, as the editors of this publication point out in their introduction. Throughout their adult education work, Horton and Freire have underlined the distinctly political nature of educational activity, insisting that there can be no "neutral" education. They have also promoted the view of the learner as "subject" rather than "object" of the learning process. Furthermore, they both devised their adult education strategies within the framework of an ongoing struggle for the generation of radically democratic relations within the respective contexts in which they worked. ; N/A

Ladson-Billings' assertion that students' familial and cultural identities must be recognized and morefully incorporated into the educative process finds much support in the community of progressiveeducational scholarship, as countless academics (including bell hooks, Paulo Freire, Peter McLaren,and Henry Giroux) and activists (including Myles Horton and Ernie Cortes) have critiqued generalistmodels of education that ignore community assets in their structures and delivery. Ladson-Billings andothers insist that when educational programs (both school and community-situated) are designed andimplemented as if they occur in social vacuums they implicitly ignore unique community identities andmodes of understanding. They relegate these identities and modes of understanding to positions ofirrelevance.

Preliminary Material -- Collective Decision Making -- Realist Historical Investigation -- The British Trade Unions in 1824 -- Anglo-Saxon England -- The Guilds -- The Methodist Church -- London Corresponding Society -- The Chartists -- The Communist Secret Societies -- The General Workers Unions -- The End of Uncritical Majoritarianism -- English Revolution and the Quakers -- The Quakers in Twentieth Century Pennsylvania -- New England Town Meetings -- The Peace and Civil Rights Movements -- Myles Horton and the Highlander -- The African and Slave Roots of the Black Baptist Churches -- Eleanor Garst and Women Strike for Peace -- The Quakers and Movement for a New Society -- Anarchism and Decision Making -- The Negation of Social Movements -- The Negation of Negation – The Rise of Alliance Politics -- Alliance Politics -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

À la fin des années 1970, les partisanes états-uniennes de la pédagogie féministe ont mis fortement l'accent sur l'importance de l'expérience dans le processus d'apprentissage, rejoignant en cela une tradition réformatrice de l'éducation portée, entre autres, par Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Dewey et Paulo Freire. Les féministes libérales considéraient l'éducation comme un moyen pour que les femmes, en tant qu'individus, acquièrent des compétences intellectuelles et le pouvoir de se mobiliser en faveur de l'égalité des droits. Faisant écho à la pensée de Rosa Luxemburg et de Myles Horton, les féministes radicales, pour leur part, placèrent la pédagogie féministe dans le contexte d'une lutte contre l'oppression plus révolutionnaire et collective. Les féministes radicales et socialistes qui délivraient des cours dans l'enseignement supérieur se sont inspirées d'un processus de conscientisation [consciousness-raising] combinant expérience, théorie, action et prise en considération du ressenti. Elles se retrouvèrent alors confrontées au problème de la théorisation et de la pratique de la pédagogie féministe dans un contexte d'institutions hiérarchiques et compétitives. Tout comme le mouvement féministe en général, elles ont dû trouver un moyen pour traiter les différences entre les étudiant·e·s au regard de leurs expériences, de leurs ressentis et de leurs idées au sujet du genre.

In this moving book, two skilled oral historians collect the words of Americans who have been victims of political repression in their own country. Disturbing and provocative, It Did Happen Here is must-reading for everyone who cares about protecting the rights and liberties upon which this country has been built

Community development emerged as a recognisable occupational activity in the United Kingdom in the 1950s. Since then, whilst struggling to remain true to its basic values it has often been manipulated to serve differing policy and political purposes. This unique Reader traces its changing fortunes through a selection of readings from key writers. It will be invaluable to those pursuing community development careers, for activists, and for all those teaching, training and practising community development