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| Description: | Civil rights group meeting in field at Highlander Lake. Fifth from the left, Charlotte Meacham, American Friends Service Committee, former Highlander stud... |
| 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 student ringing the dinner bell at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Four women holding up cardboard ovals and pointing, as part of a theatrical performance at 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: | A group of men imitating ducks, participating in a theatrical performance. A man wielding a shotgun is in the background, and is wearing a hat bearing the ... |
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| Description: | Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat. |
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| Description: | A group of four hosiery workers participating in a skit and wearing accessories made from newspaper, as part of a Highlander Folk School workshop. Joie Wil... |
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| Description: | Participants in a CIO workshop at Highlander Folk School cut long ribbons of paper. Extreme left, J.D. Marlowe, a community member. |
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| Description: | A woman (possible Leny Vanbrink) pretending as though she was fishing in a bucket as part of a CIO activity at Highlander Folk School. Three people stand b... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton(?) learning to operate a film projector at Highlander Folk School. Three people observe behind her. |
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| Description: | Dancing in Henry Thomas' yard led by Tefferteller. Next to the fiddler is Uncle Willy Marlowe, a neighbor. Henry Thomas is sitting on the porch. |
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| Description: | A movie being shown at Highlander Folk School. Still frame reads, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half," a Jay Gould quote. G... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton attentively learning to operate a film projector. |
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| Description: | A man giving a lecture to a group of students at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South. |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing the accordion and leading a sing-a-long during a Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton middle at table; DeJa... |
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