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Highlander Folk School — Part 1

132 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 132 pages OCR'd
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a riers oo nm maine os Na ee _. « oe ae 8 eee oo hee Harr dimas fe 25, 1936. L: oe .Gubject;Highlander Folk School,Yonteagle Tepn. ; - sae Your attention is respectfully called to the communiatic activities © of The Highlancer Folk School of Ronteagle Tenn. In a letter of March 6,I5u° aes syou inetructec the writer that since there is no Federal statute in regard | Sm Sto such activities that the Bureau was unable to investigate. Thie is very. (.g ‘unfortunate indeed. This school ie a fot-bed of comminiem and anarchy., Thie To; ¥r.John Edgar noover,nac...ngton Tenn. ‘is proven’ by the part taken by its members in the strikes at Harriman ean. ° -atey Tenn. and at the present at Rockwood Tenn. It is the opinion of the -- -*' Srdter that this school ehould be investigated. If 1@ were possible an ' ‘' agent of the Dept.should be sent there dW as a stucent. He would find that | ‘ a statute was being violatec-possibly TREASON. The writer hae no axe to grind,and is asking for nothing. He does not know a single member of the faculty nor the name of a etudent in this Hithilancer Folk School. But he knows enough about this inethtution to know that there is something radically wrong. Also he is a great adzirer of Ths Director of The Federal Bureau of Investigation. He is proud of the recorce $ of The Dept.of Justice since J.Edger Hoover became its head. He approves, . af the action Of The President in not permitting politicians to remove Mr. Yanver ae the Director. While Mr.McKellar is an adrired friend the writer ig apposed to hie attitude in regard to cutting the appgpoptfiations for. “ Jais Dept. Therefore bBhie letter ise written in the spirit of a lopal citizen and an ex-soldier. The natives here are hovel pecple. But this’ elaved East Tenn. is being "Honey-combed" with muniem and anarchy. And the Highlander Folk School is the hot-bed. Ce re: 4 ; w, ae <,. Robe GF | i ; : a BHDOCORDED & INDEXED : re =f — —_ ty MAYA Bee WPA ee ma HEREIN iS USCLASSIFIED — a . yore DATE FY BY - rales) ee eae ee IF SOx | W/ cole GY oN: % WN fe nee re SO ere me ee , bt oe ay a % Le RS TE a en ee Mee ee a
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