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Highlander Folk School — Part 3

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 69 pages OCR'd
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is cn the Custodial Detention is the subjcct of a file in the Knoxville and is cn the Custodial Detention list agent , Knoxville, Tennessee, Communist Activities in the Knoxville relates that is ¢onsidered having repeatedly and goanta dr Chi da WOuld a ef this office. Report of Specia October 17, 1941, in case entitled ___ Field Division (East Tennessee) has been an active communis 5 C the mest dangercus communist net he was against the Govornm Nav He Was GEaAINSU tno wOVerm + wnything to bring about its downfall, Birminghan, Alabama, In report cf Special Agent BE te om ~ February 6, 1941 in case entitled Scuthern Conference of Human Welfare, os internal Se curity -C-, (Knoxville File Nc. 100-121) PAUL ROYCHRISTOPHER oo ang EDWARD COALLACHA } together with ALTON LavRENCE, LUCY RANDOLPH MASON, cae Pu srD BORA, ROY CAQQEYNOLDS and LYLES HOxTON are listed as sponsors for eel the Scuthern Conference of Human Welfare. This report indicates that the wk Southern Confercnee for Human Welfare was founded by kmncermm ecmmunists and is So vrcesently being investigated by the Birminghan Ficld Office. qn mF SRM pamghiet entitled "THE SOUTH, Assets end Needs". This pamphlet k i5 printed by the U. S. Printing Office and the information was prepared by the 7 ‘Women's Bureau, U. S. Department of Labor, Washington, D. C. November 1938, hovever, it has Souther Conference for Human Welfare, Room 212 Tutwiler Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama, printed on the first page. This pamphlet is on the secial and economic condition of the South. It will be placed in the file in the Knoxville Field Division on the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. “ ~omber of the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL staff is now "living at the Viadison © ./-825 St. Paul Street, Baltimore, Maryland. It is to be noted that Mrs. HAWES has been repor a’ as a member of the Communist Party at Chattanooga, Tonnessee. WILLIAM4BUTTRICK is now living at 354 Colsen Street, Gainesville, florida. Mir. CARL HM KILBY, Secretary to the Vice-President and General Manager, Tennessee Consolidatcd Coal Company, Tracy City, Tennessee, furnished this office with an article from the January 17, 1936 issue of the Memphis Tennessee *+ress-Scimitar concerning the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. This article describes -13-
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