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| Description: | Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977), an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, visiting the Highlander Folk School. Two men are standing in th... |
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| Description: | Highlander staff meeting: left to right; Tom Ludwig, Myles Horton, Catherine Winston, Zilphia Horton. |
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| Description: | Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street. |
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| Description: | A meeting at Highlander Folk School. Guy Carawan is holding a banjo on far left. Septima Clark is standing third from the left. Matt Sturgis, holding an ac... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A late 1930s early 1940s writers workshop at Highlander run by Leon Wilson. Charlie Ferguson, Editor, Reader's Digest, working with Mrs. Joe Kelly Stockt... |
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| Description: | Three men smoking cigarettes around a table, as part of a CIO meeting at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Public Community meeting at Horton House: Mom Horton, extreme left; Julia Maybee, next to her; J.D. Marlowe, a neighbor, third from right with cap on, Myle... |
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| Description: | Voter registration activists from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilson seated on right. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Roosevelt at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School, talking with an Indian chief from Florida. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt, standing, with Myles Horton, and May Justus at the 25th anniversary of Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A man holding a cigar is gesturing wildly. A portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt hangs behind him. An unidentified man and Catherine Winston sit on eit... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton leading songs at Highlander during an early union CIO session. Charlie Wilson, board member, extreme right, next to him is his wife Frankie.... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton and Grace Towns Hamilton during an Urban League meeting at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Myles Horton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Jim Stokely, a writer from Newport, Tennessee. Highlander integration workshop. |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton watching as the local sheriff puts a padlock on Highlander Folk School, following a trial in which Highlander was accused of propagating Commu... |
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| Description: | Bruce Bennett diagramming Highlander Folk School's "Communistic" influence in the South. |
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| Description: | Eleanor Roosevelt, on left, shaking hands with Mrs. Jennings Perry, standing. May Justus is on the right. At Highlander Folk School. Possibly part of 25th ... |
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