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Myles Horton

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Description: Seated group observes Myles Horton making notes.
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University of Wisconsin School for Workers

Date: 07 1945
Description: University of Wisconsin School for Workers, group of students and teacher standing, looking at bulletin board with list of classes/topics. In 1945 the U...
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Estelle Thompson at CIO School

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Description: Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school.
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Meetings for Mr. Bannerman

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Description: Public meetings for Mr. Bannerman, extreme right, an educational worker from Garner. Center with white suit, Scott Bates; Labor King General, Highlander F...
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Wadmalaw Island Citizen Group Coffee Break

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Description: Wadmalaw Island Citizenship group coffee break. Third from the left is Bernice Robinson, a teacher in the first school, former Highlander Folk School stud...
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Mrs. Brewer's Class at Edisto Island

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Description: Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left.
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Young Woman Teaching Labor Class

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Description: A young woman teaching a labor class at Highlander Folk School.
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Freedom School

Date: 1964
Description: Students at Freedom School meet outdoors for class during Freedom Summer.
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Stewards' School

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Description: The training school for stewards sponsored by Local 56 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. At the blackboard is Otis L. Simmons, the local pres...
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Banneker High School

Date: 1937
Description: Male and female students pose for a group portrait, with their teacher standing at right, in front of Banneker High School. The structure is made of brick ...
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Professor C.W. Farr Teaching Agricultural Course

Date: 02 10 1915
Description: Professor C.W. Farr standing on an elevated platform at the front of a classroom at the Burrell School while presenting on the subject of agricultural dive...
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Cotton Presentation

Date: 1915
Description: View from back of classroom of Dr. W.B. Hinds pointing at a graph as he delivers an agricultural lecture on cotton to students seated at North Alabama Bapt...
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Boys Building Fly Traps

Date: 1915
Description: Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard.
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Classroom Presentation on Flies

Date: 1915
Description: A group of students and a teacher are sitting at desks in a classroom while listening to a lesson on the dangers of house flies. Agricultural lecture chart...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Album: Playtime

Date: 1925
Description: Page from an album kept by Neighborhood House, with images of infants and young children being cared for at the settlement house, including a group outside...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Activities Scrapbook: Play School Scenes

Date: 1946
Description: Page from a scrapbook kept by Neighborhood House, with two images from the Play School for 3 and 4 year olds: a boy is opening his mouth for a woman who is...
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Freedom School Teacher and Students

Date: 1964
Description: Sandra Adickes (right), Freedom Summer volunteer teacher at Palmer's Crossing Freedom School. Students (left) are Rita Mae Crawford and Jimella Stokes.
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Freedom School Lessons

Date: 1964
Description: A white male Freedom Summer volunteer teaches African-American students in a Freedom School in Priest Creek Baptist Church.
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Bob Moses Speaking

Date: 08 08 1964
Description: Bob (Robert) Moses speaking at the Freedom School Convention during Freedom Summer.
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Freedom School Convention

Date: 08 08 1964
Description: Teachers at the Freedom School convention during Freedom Summer. The woman in the center is Liz Fusco, one of the coordinators of the Freedom School projec...

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