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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: | Alice Cobb (left), a Highlander Folk School staff member, and an unidentified workshop participant during a Civil Rights workshop at the school. |
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| Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
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| Description: | Esau Jenkins, whose request for help registering citizens on Johns Island provided the basis for the citizenship school program at Highlander Folk School, ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc... |
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| Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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| Description: | CIO school in the 1940s. Features two women reviewing the "Highlander Flash," a newsletter produced by the Highlander Folk School. |
| 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... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Voter registration activists from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilson seated on right. |
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| Description: | Two men playing checkers, while another reads a journal, taking a break from a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | A female Civil Rights workshop participant standing outside at Highlander Folk School. |
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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... |
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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. |
| 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: | Highlander board member Arkapece Stevens drinking a Coke. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 09 02 1957 |
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| Description: | 25th Anniversary event in the Highlander Folk School Library. Pictured are Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, Aubrey Williams, and Martin Luther King, Jr. among ot... |
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| Description: | Myles Horton and Zilphia Horton reviewing some written materials at Highlander Folk School. |
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