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Highlander Folk School — Part 4

66 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Apr 25, 1961 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 66 pages OCR'd
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cot , . + ° v STOCETOK'S fern, \ “which D they intended to use as a school. a ecid thet'these individuals, while they were in - . Allardt, were doing the ectual labor on this building - themselves, and were living on the premises. . ron were two or possibly three other women, whose nemes he aid not know, whose nemes he did not know, who were also’ living on the STOCKTON'S ferm end also that ELIZABETH HAYES hed merried an organizer for the CIO Hosiery Workers. RD 6¢ not iow the nane of this C10 organizer. a eum fr ther advised the writer that — fo; i ‘after the cbove mentioned people had been on STOCETOU'S , j , —— fern for approximately six months, he asked them to an \ leave beceuse they were living with each other's wifes end one of them, just which one he did not know, was. livine with the wife of one of STOCKTOK'S hired hands. eee QE = svised it wee efter this thet the ~— , cbove mentioned persons proceeded to Montesgle, Tennesses ~ 4 ana erected a school there, adding it was his underetend- t ‘4ng thet they were presently engaged in the operation of this school. ‘ . 7 “ . que forther ateted thet in hie opinion’, this school wes composed entirely of Communists and he *, was surprised to read in one of the newspapers thet MRS, ~. eo! FRAILLIX D, ROCSEVELT hed given money toward the support + RG of this institution. He said it was hie understanding : — thet it was the purpose of this school te teach labor °° senisers end eddea thet during the time ther were at Alierat they did very little of anything end spent most — a of their time on.the outside of, the building with few , clothes on, i ; “i QED 5254 it wos his opinion thet STOCKTON ~ wes not @ founder or organizer of this school, but being - @ very generous individual wes only trying to hel»y then rrA aterted hy giving then’ plece te erect the necessary cna started by ceiving then’ s lace ecl.ool building. The vriter wos forther ecvised thet STCOKTON'S wife rar for the Governor of the Stete of Tenneesce tn 1956 on the Socialist ticket ond that Pow eee ee ee wee Besides the above mentioned persons, ‘theres i hae ie: -
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