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1930s, originally to train union organizers. but by the mid 1940, the center's focus expanded to the civil rights struggle. >> my grandmother came up here, and she learned about how to be a protester. >> really? >> and rosa parks came up here. >> through the years, this place has stood as a beacon of allyship and resistance. the montgomery bus boycott, the student nonviolent coordinating committee, fanny lou hammer, and look at this, martin is working on that dream. this is hallowed ground. >> i think we forget what the appalachians and the black americans put together to make america. not jus...

>> it really does. thank you. this is just going to relax. >> tell me more. how long has this been here? >> since the quakers started this. the quakers, they don't believe in violence. a lot of people came up to learn how to be nonviolent, how to protest. >> the highlander center is like a university of civil disobedience. buried in the hills outside of tennessee, it was founded by myles horton in the 1930s, originally to train union organizers. by the 1940s, the center focused to the civil rights struggle. >> my grandmother came up here and learned about how to be a protester. you know, rosa ...

This. this is what's going to really give it -- >> that's the magic? >> your wife is going to love me for this. >> i think she already loves you, but yes, another reason to love nikki vee vianey. >> now we got this. isn't that pretty? >> it looks beautiful. >> it really does. we're going put it in that one. and thank you. and this just going to relax and make the house smell good. >> so tell me a little more. this is the highland center. how long has this been here? >> oh, since the '30s of so. the quakers started this. the quakers, they don't believe in violence. and so a lot of people came u...

Angela dennis. the executive director of the highlander center and the poet laureates of the show, nikki and crystal. i'm hungry. >> i'm a big "jeopardy!" fan. i was really sorry when alex died. alex could pronounce anything, something that's greek that is 8,000 years old, he could pronounce it. and the question was appalachia. and he could not pronounce appalachia. and i was like let me call in. >> let me in, coach. >> take that question, nikki giovanni called in to correct me. there is a very popular narrative of black americans in the south that we can't tell the story of the south without ...

Music naturally brings people together. In Orange, New Jersey, organizers show how “creative placekeeping” finds its strength in the relationships that are formed within the community.