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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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oe ee - : Highlander Hearing Opens Today; By MOUZON FEIERS Chattanecgs Time: Hay Wreer ALTAMONT, Tenn — The nit-| rector and three othev an tle mountain courthouse among Charges of potscesing moonshine the colorful maples in the county! whisky at the achool. seat of Grundy County will be the, Indictmenta were returned selling Tuesday of the second aci,late Monday against Mrv. in the current legs! drama entitied Septima Ciark, the education “Highlander Folk School Must'@irector; Brent Eugene Berke- Go.” [dale, 32, Los Angeles; Guy Opening is Grundy County cir. Hughes Carawan, 22, Les cult court js Gee bearing in which) Amgeles, and Perry Sturgess, the @tlormey general of Tennes-(98. Shelter Island Heights, N.Y. eee 8 Ra godiogl Tut Will seek Circujt Court Clerk Mrs. Fior- .an order revoking the Syearelalence Bouldin revealed. ‘charter of the institution which! Mrs Clark was indicted on @ workshops and pursuts a policy! The three men, whe were taking ot agyresaive itheralinn. [part in a workshop af the school The first part of the current] last July #1 when ooonty and move against the school was in:ttate officers staged & Paid, mid Sepemoer, when fhe ator a abeeraagibras hohrarvial oe - = a Nees, Z an ney Feneral, A. F, Boan of SOUTH ering with an officer in the dis- FAt tetany, t vv in- an id sought & temporary in | charge of ble atficial duty. against the operation of bon the achool on grounds it was al, Cah da, posted by the public gulgance, four at the time of their ar- Highlander Inst @ preliminaryl. 3. were © tinue a, round Monday even before the iheering opened when the . (dicted the school's education di-] See Page Two, Celama Three MreClark, 3 Others Are Indicted—. ee |HEARINC-QRENS || on HIGHLANDER From Page One fin ot that time agreed to the ned jlocking of ene building smong the jdosen or miare on the 1s0-ecre jcempys. He ruled that the siaie’s ‘attorney had proved a ¢' {beer had been dispensed Meral t lpoistereus immoral practices af the school. Atty. Gen. Sloan, in addition to ‘etlecking Mighlender in the Wear. [me epening Tuesday on the ‘charges of bis original petition, jeri: geek Pevecation of the charter an the claim that operations of the lpebod! have ,‘viclated terns of the | In soditien. aiteeugt Te ates ‘ney general bed said during the ifirat bearing and since tha leet were not invelved, he last 1 _ a week fed an amendment ty his petition to charge that Highlander fa in violation of a bf-yearold Ten neseee law which forbids white ahd Negroes from atiead- ing the same classed, Myles Horton, founder and pres- ‘ident of Highlander, and olber# as- [sociated with the defense have ex- ‘pressed some reiber contuaes sur. ‘prise gf the amendment. | "We are willing lo stipulate that i Highlander {3 integrated,” sald Horton. “We hardly see bow it is ‘possible, though, to be in viels- cae |tian of a statute already held to be i invalid by both state and federal | courts.” | ‘ mil City aad, Monteazie, this 9 * tenittee visited the school and =| ALL INFORMATION CONTAINER HEREIN IS UNCLASSI Fé DATE .slois py es ie) | eT Vi. TT aN09 RAT i meget Chattenooca, Ternessee . 11+-3-59 -Martih Ochs. Editor _Bnokville Division ° ieee
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