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| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Henry Lee Senter (right) and State Representative Chester McCord (left) at the State investigation of the Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | CIO Session at Highlander Folk School featuring Frank McCallister, standing. Graph shows number of Americans employed vs. number of American workers union... |
| Date: | 12 09 1947 |
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| Description: | IUMM & SW Institute for Educational Techniques, Political Action! To keynote the intensive efforts this union would be making in the future, Jessie Dansby... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Food, Tobacco and Agriculture Workers session at Highlander. Connie Anderson, Educational Director for the organization, is standing in the center. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Back of Main Building at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a kimono at Highlander Folk School. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A student at Highlander having a picnic behind the school. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Jim Dombrowski, Secretary of Highlander Folk School, lecturing using an Amalgamated Clothing Workers Visual-Lecture Sheet. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger at Highlander Folk School, possibly at a 25th anniversary celebration, where he was in charge of music. Playing an Orpheum #1 open-back five st... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Film still of a frail woman holding a baby, who were neighbors of Highlander Folk School. Promotional material accompanying the film, "People of Cumberlan... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Early 1930s laundry group that helped staff members. Dorothy Carlson at 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. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Perry Horton, father of Myles Horton, in the Highlander Folk School garden. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the third Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. |
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