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Civil Rights Group with Septima Clark

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Description: A group of Civil Rights activists, including Septima Clark (left), posing in front of the Highlander Library.
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Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: A Civil Rights workshop in session at Highlander School showing Myles Horton, Mikii Marlowe, Essau Jenkins, Septima Clark and Rosa Parks in attendance.
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Civil Rights Meeting with Thurgood Marshall

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Description: Eleven people, including Thurgood Marshall, Anne Braden, Myles Horton, and Septima Clark, are sitting and standing during a Civil Rights meeting at Highlan...
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Eleanor Roosevelt at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Eleanor Roosevelt speaks on the front porch of Highlander School. The woman seated behind Ms. Roosevelt is May Justus, who, with her partner Vera McCampbel...
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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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Outdoor Meeting at Highlander School

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Description: A group of people sitting on the grass and chairs outdoors for a meeting with the Highlander Library in the background. From left to right: Father of Myles...
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Lillian Johnson and the Hortons

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Description: A candid group portrait at Highlander school with Lillian Johnson and Myles and Charis Horton.
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Outdoor Meeting at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four people have an informal meeting outdoors at Highlander School. Three of them are seated on the grass and one is seated on a chair. Myles Horton on the...
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Highlander Group Portrait

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Description: Group portrait of adults at Highlander School.
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Hosiery Workers Session

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Description: A group of hosiery workers meet outdoors for a session.
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Miners Workshop

Date: 1933
Description: Attendees of the 1933-1934 coal mine strikers workshop.
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Koinonia Children's Camp at Highlander

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Description: Group portrait of eleven children practicing archery in the woods of the Highlander Folk School. Part of the Koinonia Children's Camp program. Fourth from ...
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Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library

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Description: Koinonia Youth Camp in the Highlander Library at the Highlander Folk School. The woman in the background is identified as Septima Clark. Koinonia is a far...
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Clinton Youth at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four girls hiking up a mountain as an excursion during the Clinton Youth session at Highlander Folk School. Clinton Youth was a Unitarian work camp from th...
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Highlander Folk School Youth Project Dance

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Description: Youth dancing at the Highlander Folk School as part of the Summer Youth Project program. Wendy Davis is in the lower left.
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Unitarian Work Camp Participants

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Description: Group portrait of participants of the Unitarian Work Camp at the Highlander Folk School. The central male figure is identified as Fred Lasse.
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Relaxing During Koinonia Children's Camp

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Description: Group of boys and one man relaxing in a lean-to at the Highlander Folk School, behind the nursery school. Part of Koinonia Children's Camp. David Tate seen...
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Koinonia Children's Camp Group Portrait

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Description: Group of children in front of a tent. Part of Highlander Folk School's Koinonia Children's Camp.
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Koinonia Children's Campers in Lake

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Description: Children swimming in a lake as part of Highlander Folk School's Koinonia Children's Camp.
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Koinonia Children's Campers in front of Library

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Description: Group portrait of children and adults, some carrying stuffed animals, in front of the library at the Koinonia Children's Camp. Ruthie Hartford in the cente...

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