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Highlander Folk School — Part 15

96 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Dec 31, 1956 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 95 pages OCR'd
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* unf’p STATES DEPARTMENT OF Orne FEDERAL BUREAD OF INVESTIGATION 617 Walnut Street, S.W. Kroxviile 02, Teni.essee September 11, 1553 sore ty CONF RENTIAL . TYAUMT AMAPh BAT? AST ear ee te ee! Se ee ee LOMTEAGLE, TENTEOSEE FORMATION CONCTRTING A copy Of a mimecgraphed letter was received by the Knoxville Office of the FSI bearing the return address of tne Highlander Folk Scnacol, Monteagie, Tennessee, Tag mimctographed letter reads as foilows: "Tighlander Folk School Monteagle, Tennessee From MylesVorten to Fellow Ternnesseans: ay Tae State Legislative Investigatisa instigated ‘hy Atty. Genl. Bruce Bennet of Arkansas spectacularly failed to prove that Highlander's stand on integration was subversive, Wevertheless our District Atty. wes instructed to find some other excuse for closing the school, While I was away sonething happened that aba Ve ae shocked all decent pecple. Urs. Septima7Glark, Highe | 19 Ay 's Ecucational Director, an " outstanding church swoon, 1977 woman, wac arrested and hauled off to jail in the midst of an intecrated workshop. (At present she is conduct- ing a workshop attended by 33 pecple, including a number oi toreign visitors sent by the State Department, with her vsual cignity.) According to the Nashville Tennessean Sloan that +54 mat A whinkh hea St nantada wae fan tha purpose of finding whisxey so he could have the school closcd. “The members of the lecislative cormittee gave me intormation mostly on integration ard communism," Fee geeaENy meetermp /- 7 wa —252 ; i #TeD slsssif! teas re 3b Doi Classified? @ fdas SHOR ne ENTIAL Beclacsity E * CILERVISES et
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