They encouraged -- and eventually helped sponsor -- Parks in the summer of 1955 to attend the Highlander Folk School , an education center for activism in workers ' rights and racial equality in Monteagle , Tennessee .
Politically liberal , the Durrs became her friends .
Durrs encouraged -- and eventually helped sponsor -- Parks in the summer of 1955 to attend the Highlander Folk School , an education center for activism in workers ' rights and racial equality in Monteagle , Tennessee .
Politically liberal , the Durrs became her friends .