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Voting, Joint Committee Activity, Transportation, Housing, Parks and Action Through Churches", It was not known. whether the "experiments" on John's Island had any relation to these work shops. The following article captioned "Classes M4)’ | Here Sponsored by Folk School", by OTIS\PERKINS, appeared in the News and Courter, a daily newspaper ‘published in Charleston, South Carolina, on March 11, 1959: "Interracial Highand Folk School, which has been under investigation in Tennessee, has sponsored citizenship classes among Charleston County Negroes for the last two years. "The latest of such classes was completed on John's Island last Thursday, Similar classes —all plugging registration and voting -- also have been held on Edisto Island and Wadmalaw Tsiland, "Reports of the classes had been rumored here for sometime. Their operation was verified yesterday by the man who helped set them up, "He is Esaw Jenkins, a soft-spoken, mild-mannered Negro leader of John's Island. venkins, who missed formal educa- tion, says there's nothing secret or ulterior about his own brand of private education. He gives the impression, himself, of being educated, which grew from private tutoring as an adult. -- 2? -- rm a ee