Parks attended the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee weeks before her arrest in Montgomery. Highlander, a kind of training facility for community organizers was started by two members of the Communist Party in 1954. There Parks learned about Gandhi and the effectiveness of nonviolent civil disobedience.See also Abolishing America, Cont'd: Black History…or Red?, by Sam Francis, February 27, 2003.,The Communists and Rosa Parks, American Thinker, February 28, 2013