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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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| 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: | CIO students doing kitchen duty at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton helping. |
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| Description: | Packinghouse staff workshop at Highlander Folk School. Secretary-Treasurer Hathaway, left; and Vice-President Russell Lasley, right, standing. |
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| Description: | Karen Blondell of the Antioch co-op at Highlander Folk School. |
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| Description: | Mrs. Brewer teaching a citizenship class at Edisto Island. Septima Clark, far left. |
| 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: | 1957 |
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| Description: | From left: Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton, and Mrs. Roosevelt at a Highlander conference in connection with the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. |
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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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| 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 man giving a lecture to a group of students at Highlander Folk School. |
| 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: | 04 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Left-handed students in Mary Kier's fourth grade class at Nakoma Elementary School, 3780 Nakoma Road, show how easy it is to write "just like everyone else... |
| Date: | 05 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Fourth graders at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown using microscopes in the school's science room. Left to right: David Meng, Tom... |
| Date: | 04 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Fourth grade students at Emerson Elementary School, 2421 East Johnson Street, shown examining stuffed birds in the school's science room. Left to right: Da... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton playing the accordion and leading a sing-a-long during a Farmers Union session at Highlander Folk School. Myles Horton middle at table; DeJa... |
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| Description: | Zilphia Horton leading songs at Highlander during an early union CIO session. Charlie Wilson, board member, extreme right, next to him is his wife Frankie.... |
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| Description: | Myles and Zilphia Horton Square Dancing at Highlander Folk School with two other people. |
| 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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