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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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—_ ( cee ee é IC HIGHL:NDER FOLK SCHOOL P| 61-12 4-10-11 JAMES DOMBROWSKI, Secretary of the Highlander Folk School, \ is the person who signs all of the mail sent out by the schoot requesting contributions and designztes himself on these letters as chairman, with- cut saying what he is chairman of. In a letter suddressed by SD Athens, Tennessge, —_ to Sweetwater, Tennessee, dated November 16, 1949, DOMBROWSKI is reported to have signed a bulletin issued by the Revolutionary Policy Committee of the Socialist Party in 193 stating they would "make every effort to promote the world revolution and to securé Governmental power for the victorious revolution by arming the workers and by preparing the working class to turn imperialist war into class war." He is also reported to have solicited persons to join the Young Communists' League at the school. , 4 ELIZABETH perf, better known as aria) sites, has been active as a teacher in thé school from its beginning and is reported to have been especially strong in her teaching of Corimuris+ic principles and how they can be used in labor agitation. She is mirri:! to FRANZ/DANIEL and both are listed as being signers with DOMBROWOKI =f the bulletin of the Socialist Party's Revolutionary Policy Committee mentioned above under JANES DOMBROWSKI'S name. A photogrzp! of the above mentioned letter dated November 16, 1940 written by is being enclosed as Exhibit No. 1.. i QD is in Florida at the present time, too ill to be interviewed, and is not expected to live. + lead is being sct out to contact the State - Amcricanization Committee of the ‘mericzn Legion at Nashville to locate the Socialist Party bulletin a to. The original of Sp letter is in possession of Tracy City, Tennessee. Several other persons are presently living at the school and appear to have some officisl connection with the school of a more perma- nent nature than thos listed later -s teachers. L “a en gr re a A
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