Date: | 1863 |
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Description: | Union army officers. From left are: General U.S. Grant, General Rawlins, General Webster, Colonel Lagow, and Colonel Killyer take a break. |
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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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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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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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Description: | Various views of people, including Rosa Parks and Myles Horton, at an early integration workshop 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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Description: | A candid group portrait at Highlander school with Lillian Johnson and Myles and Charis Horton. |
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Description: | Front cover of the Highlander Reports, October 1, 1958-September 30, 1959, with an image of Esau Jenkins and Myles Horton. |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
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Description: | Pre-CIO meeting at Highlander School with a group of men. |
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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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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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Description: | Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush. |
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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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Description: | Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander Folk School investigation in Grundy County. |
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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: | Highlander staff meeting: left to right; Tom Ludwig, Myles Horton, Catherine Winston, Zilphia Horton. |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton talking to an oil worker from the CIO school. |
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