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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 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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"Tractorette" Group on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Mrs. John T. Shea, Mary Elma Riddell, and Mrs. John R. Riddell, participants in "Tractorette" class, are posing around a Farmall H tractor with J.S. Inman,...
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Three Children Singing

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Description: Three children sitting on a porch singing together and playing pattycake.
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Highlander High School Students

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Description: Portrait of six unidentified high school students, with their teacher, at Highlander Folk School.
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Girl Wringing Out Shorts

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Description: A young girl helps her mother with laundry by wringing out a pair of shorts next to a wash basin.
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John Dalwin Children

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Description: Group portrait of the children of John Dalwin at Highlander Folk School.
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Woman with Towel Helping Another Woman

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Description: A smiling woman with a towel is swabbing the side of a woman's head at a CIO or Amalgamated Transit Union workshop at Highlander Folk School. Another woman...
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Women on Street Near Highlander

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Description: Two elderly women walking on a sidewalk next to a storefront.
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Two Women at CIO Session

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Description: Two women talking on a foliage covered bench as part of a CIO session at Highlander Folk School.
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Farmers Union Picnic

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Description: Women wearing patterned dresses at a Farmers Union Picnic at Highlander Folk School.
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Two People Outside of Highlander Library

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Description: A man is reading a book on a bench, while a woman is standing in front of the entrance to the Highlander Library. A small group of people can be seen insid...
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The Hortons and The Brownes

Date: 1963
Description: Staff meeting at Highlander Center in Knoxville, left to right: Aimee Horton, Myles Horton, Conrad Browne, Ora Browne. Conrad is reading "The Carolina Isr...
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Discussion Groups on Highlander Lawn

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Description: Informal discussion groups out on the lawn of Highlander. Myles Horton smiling in lower right.
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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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Perry and Elsie Horton with Dogs

Date: 1937
Description: Perry and Elsie Horton, parents of Myles Horton, with fox hounds, at Highlander Folk School.
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Fun with an Old Nail Keg

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Description: A boy named Henry rolling down a hill in an old nail keg. Part of the Highlander Folk School nursery. There is also a girl in the background with another ...
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Rosa Parks at Segregation Workshop

Date: 07 24 1955
Description: Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Striking Workers at Lookout Oil

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Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America Local 186 in a picket line at Lookout Oil & Refining Company, a producer of salad and vegeta...
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George B. McMillan

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Description: George McMillan poses next to a tree and an unidentified woman. A handwritten caption beneath the image reads, "This tree sheltered me." He was a veteran o...

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