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Description: | Zilphia Horton leading singing at CIO School during Holiday season. At the table on the right, Myles Horton, Mike Ross, Tom Ludwig, and Joyce Mitchell. |
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Description: | A group of CIO students, who are attending Highlander Folk School, enjoying a picnic at the nearby Foster Falls picnic area. Dad Horton standing on the lef... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | The men of the McCormick Works Council posing in front of the brick wall of a building for a group portrait. |
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Description: | Farmers Union workshop outdoors near water at Highlander Folk School. B.R. Brazeal is on the extreme left. May Justus, Highlander's Secretary-Treasurer, a... |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton playing an accordion and singing on a picket line. A group of men and women sit in chairs in front of a tent. Sign on left reads, "Peaceful ... |
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Description: | A packinghouse worker at an unidentified slaughterhouse butchering a pig. A button on his hat reads, "No raise, no work". |
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Description: | A group of packinghouse workers from an unidentified location processing pigs. |
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Description: | A group of African American packinghouse workers at an unidentified location cutting slabs of pork. |
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Description: | A group of packinghouse workers on the processing line, tending to pigs. |
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Description: | Russell Bull, regional Packinghouse Workers director, fishing in Highlander Lake. He has just caught a largemouth bass. |
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Description: | Farmers Union baseball game at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Two CIO members sitting on porch outside of the Barton recreational department cabin at Highlander Folk School. One of the men is playing a guitar. |
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Description: | Three men are dressed as women, wearing brasseries, and skirts made from newspaper. Part of a hosiery workers workshop skit at Highlander Folk School. |
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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: | Early CIO convention-organizers and union officials at a textile workers [?] convention. |
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Description: | Ike Church at a CIO bar-b-que, cutting a pork shank. |
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Description: | Two men cleaning hogs for a CIO Bar-B-Que at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Farmers Union ladies quilting. A sign in the background reads, "Mt. Pelia". In Weakley County. |
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