Myles Falls Horton taught and heavily influenced the co-founder of what conference?
556a3bad999fd9bdfa6b6ccd2d918ea6
Myles Horton Myles Falls Horton (July 9, 1905 – January 19, 1990) was an American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement"). Horton taught and heavily influenced most of the era's leaders. They included Martin Luther King Jr, Rosa Parks (who studied with Horton shortly before her decision to keep her seat on the Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955), John Lewis, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, Ralph Abernathy, John B. Thompson, and many others.
86da4d5d0f6cb5a1f17aa147f8dd1afb
Ralph Abernathy Ralph David Abernathy Sr. (March 11, 1926 – April 17, 1990) was a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, a minister, and a close friend of Martin Luther King Jr.. In 1955, he collaborated with King to create the Montgomery Improvement Association, which led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In 1957, Abernathy co-founded, and was an executive board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Following the assassination of King, Abernathy became president of the SCLC. As president of the SCLC, he led the Poor People's Campaign in Washington, D.C. during 1968. Abernathy also served as an advisory committee member of the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). He later returned to the ministry, and in 1989 — the year before his death — Abernathy wrote, "And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography", a controversial autobiography about his and King's involvement in the Civil Rights Movement.
48b56076a955bd003cb15a0cfe3d2fe1
Stephen Downes Stephen Downes (born April 6, 1959) is a Canadian philosopher and commentator in the fields of online learning and new media. Downes has explored and promoted the educational use of computer and online technologies since 1995. Downes gave the 2004 Buntine Oration and was a presenter at the February 2007 Online Connectivism Conference. In 2008, Downes and George Siemens designed and taught an online, open course reported as a "landmark in the small but growing push toward 'open teaching'" - widely considered the first Connectivist Massive open online course (MOOC).
eefe601301ae4f00ed96e4f5ca02475a
Charleston Conference The Charleston Conference is an annual event for academic libraries and publishers, held in Charleston, South Carolina, in the United States.
41bd02366ce219b48f4853e9d51707bf
Texas Conference for Women The Texas Conference for Women is a nonprofit, nonpartisan leadership conference for women of all ages and backgrounds. The first annual conference was held in 2000 in Austin, Texas. From 2000 until 2014, former Governor Rick Perry and former First Lady Anita Perry served as the official hosts of the event, which has featured keynote speakers including Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, educator and historian; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, writer and family health advocate; Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP; Maria Hinojosa, Emmy-nominated journalist and author; and Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Traditionally, the conference has attracted a sold-out crowd of more than 7,500 women.
4c9782fe9ad80e7b79a63079099c7a22
George R. Knight George Raymond Knight (born 1941) is a leading Seventh-day Adventist historian, author, and educator. He is emeritus professor of church history at Andrews University. As of 2014 he is considered to be the best-selling and influential voice for the past three decades within the denomination.
3e1399269091a3862993a1430d62caaf
Myles Jackson Myles W. Jackson (born Paterson, New Jersey on 25 November 1964) is currently the Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science at New York University-Gallatin, Professor of History of the Faculty of Arts and Science of New York University, Professor of the Division of Medical Bioethics of NYU-Langone School of Medicine, Faculty Affiliate of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, NYU School of Law, and Director of Science and Society of the College of Arts and Science at NYU. He was the inaugural Dibner Family Professor of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at Polytechnic Institute of New York University from 2007 to 2012. The chair is named after Bern Dibner (1897 – 1988), an electrical engineer, industrialist, historian of science and technology and alumnus of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn.
ce9727ff81783bad19b3557c437af29b
Harcourt Morgan John Harcourt Alexander Morgan (August 31, 1867 – August 25, 1950) was a Canadian-American entomologist, educator, and agricultural expert, who served as president of the University of Tennessee from 1919 until 1934. In 1933, he was appointed to the inaugural board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, with which he remained until 1948, including three years (1938–1941) as chairman. In both capacities, he promoted a philosophy known as "the common mooring," which stressed a harmonious relationship between man and the environment, and consistently worked to introduce more efficient and less destructive farming techniques in the Tennessee Valley.
040c8547cb0c2c8c968da6b0b33d13fd
Alexander Reford Alexander Reford is an historian by training, with master's degrees in history from the University of Toronto and Oxford University. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1962, he was raised and educated in the Outaouais region of Québec. He held the position of Dean of College at St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto from 1987 to 1995. He left to assume the directorship of Les Jardins de Métis (Reford Gardens), a cultural destination and tourist attraction located on the banks of the St. Lawrence in Grand-Métis, Québec. The great-grandson of Elsie Reford, creator of the Gardens, he was instrumental in creating the not for profit organization that purchased them from the Quebec government in 1995. Under his stewardship, a complete restoration of the gardens and the historic buildings on the property has been undertaken.
90ef8d35a079a56ae8f71f52209f1873
Zilphia Horton Zilphia Horton (April 14, 1910 – April 11, 1956) was an American musician, community organizer, educator, Civil Rights activist, and folklorist. She is best known for her work with her husband Myles Horton at the Highlander Folk School where she is generally credited with turning such songs as "We Shall Overcome", "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize," "We Shall Not Be Moved," and "This Little Light of Mine" from hymns into songs of the Civil Rights Movement.
8b891c53849689cb2ae095210e302f00
Community of Writers at Squaw Valley The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley is an annual writers' conference which holds its summer sessions in Squaw Valley, California (Olympic Valley). Panels, talks, staff readings and workshops take place in off-season ski lodges. Founded by novelist Oakley Hall and writer Blair Fuller in 1969, it is held each summer in Olympic Valley, California. The first conference was held in August 1970 in the lodges of the ski area. It was originally staffed by San Francisco writers including David Perlman, Walter Ballenger, Barnaby Conrad and John Leggett, the latter two of whom went on to found, respectively, the Santa Barbara Writers Conference and the Napa Valley Writers Conference.
93a70351db6b903dee051c287c3365cc
Frank Leslie Cross Frank Leslie Cross, FBA (1900–1968), Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford, was a British, Anglican patristics scholar and founder of the Oxford International Conference on Patristic Studies and editor of "The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church" (First Edition, 1957).
c03e03c463eb9e1876f679becc604c40
John Myles (disambiguation) John Myles was the founder of Swansea, Massachusetts.
e5216ce30ec9bed480fa842932185e3d
John Doc Fuller John Doc Fuller is a prison coach, motivational speaker and author.
4ef656d30974368224767074e4a43a37
Otto Scharmer Claus Otto Scharmer (born 1961) is a Senior Lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a Thousand Talents Program Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, and co-founder of the Presencing Institute. He chairs the MIT IDEAS program for cross-sector innovation that aims to help "stakeholders from business, government, civil society to innovate at the level of the whole system".
dd14920d8c3895a4a9f84891a14d1903
Global Peter Drucker Forum The Global Peter Drucker Forum is an international management conference dedicated to the management philosophy of Peter Drucker. Drucker, who lived from 1909 to 2005, was a management professor, writer, and consultant, frequently referred to as a "management guru." The Forum is held annually in November, in Drucker's home town of Vienna, Austria and is put on by the Peter Drucker Society Europe, an affiliate of the Drucker Institute at Claremont Graduate University.
9bac277a6ec1680a0c10fa29e6d7cc89
Daniel Greenberg (educator) Daniel A. Greenberg (born c. 1934), one of the founders of the Sudbury Valley School, has published several books on the Sudbury model of school organization, and has been described by Sudbury Valley School trustee Peter Gray as the "principal philosopher" among its founders. He is a former physics professor at Columbia University, and is described by Lois Holzman as the school's "chief 'philosophical writer'".
e42f5aae06dff438259cf3f0b94ab783
Lawrence K. Frank Lawrence (Larry) Kelso Frank (December 6, 1890 – September 23, 1968) was an American social scientist, administrator, and parent educator, particularly known as vice-president of the Josiah Macy, Jr., Foundation and together with Frank Fremont-Smith initiator of the Macy conferences.
d21980ffb723fd962a427522367ac49e
James J. Stoker James Johnston Stoker (March 2, 1905 – October 19, 1992) was an American applied mathematician and engineer. He was director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and is considered one of the founders of the institute, Courant and Friedrichs being the others. Stoker is known for his work in differential geometry and theory of water waves. He is also the author of the now classic book "Water Waves: The Mathematical Theory with Applications".
678cb4f703c1e180ebeb86a4646dad95
Joseph Bates (Adventist) Joseph Bates (July 8, 1792 – March 19, 1872) was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, a strain of religious thinking that evolved into the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Bates is also credited with convincing James White and Ellen G. White of the validity of the seventh-day Sabbath.
8e3a072a85304f985dc101314e916744
Microsoft Inspire Microsoft Inspire, (formerly the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference, and previously abbreviated WPC), is a conference held annually by Microsoft Corporation for its partner community. At Inspire, partners learn about Microsoft’s roadmap for the upcoming year, network and build connections, share best practices, experience the latest product innovations, and learn new skills and techniques There are also keynote addresses from Microsoft executives, featured speakers, business-track specific offerings, and hundreds of sessions.
d038d932be2d0361a117a181f36aaf44
Charles Schmitter Charles R. Schmitter was an American fencer, Olympic and collegiate coach, and professor emeritus of health and physical education at Michigan State University. He was a founder of the National Fencing Coaches' Association (NFCA) and is credited as being a major contributor to the growth of fencing in the Midwest.