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Myles Horton

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Myles Horton.
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Highlander School Contact Sheet

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Description: Various views of people, including Rosa Parks and Myles Horton, at an early integration workshop at Highlander School.
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Father Groppi at School Boycott

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Description: Father James Groppi and students from Boniface School join the public school boycott. They're clapping their hands and appear to be chanting.
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Vera McCampbell Testifying

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Description: Vera McCampbell, former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932, testifying d...
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Myles Horton Testifying

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Description: Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander Folk School investigation in Grundy County.
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Henry Lee Senter and Representative McCord

Date: 1962
Description: Henry Lee Senter (right) and State Representative Chester McCord (left) at the State investigation of the Highlander Folk School.
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Fannie Lou Hamer

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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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Marriage at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Tom Ludwig and Vida Cox [Ludwig], a neighbor of Highlander Folk School, sitting in a Jeep together after having been married. The couple met while at the s...
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Alice Cobb at Civil Rights Workshop

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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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Alice Cobb and Bernice Robinson

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Description: Alice Cobb (right) and Bernice Robinson (left), in front of the main school building.
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Catherine Winston

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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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Myles Horton with Typewriter

Date: 1934
Description: Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors.
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Myles Horton at Sewing Class

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Description: Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured.
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Wipe Out Discrimination

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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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A Meeting at Highlander

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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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Clambake at Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: Civil Rights workshop of Highlander participants partaking in an oyster feast on Johns Island.
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Civil Rights Workshop Members Wearing Hats

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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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Rosa Parks at Clinton Students Gathering

Date: 1956
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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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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25th Anniversary of Highlander

Date: 09 02 1957
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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