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arate eee toe And Dr. King Soin Forces aien's outer Christi er i. eet Leadershiy Conference — he by the Rev, Martin Luthety _ Jr—and Tennessee's controver- sial Highlander Folk School have joined forces to train Negro Jead- ers for the Southern civil rights struggle. ; James R. Wood, SCLC adminis- trative assistant, said in Atlanta Thursday that 11 Negro leaders have already completed a one- week course of instruction at the school and another 15 will attend a second course in two weeks. He said the first 11 participants were Negroes from Savannah and Montgomery, Ala. None was from Atlanta, he said. oo. @& THE SECOND class will be ecornposed of students from Ten- nessee and Kentucky, he said. Mr. Hunt said the course was designed primarily to instruct Ne- gro Jeaders from smaller towns, whe will then return home and teach local Negroes. “They're being trained to be BAe ‘leaders and teachers," he said. be - “They are learning to teach sim- . ; pie reading, writing, civics, poli- Mo tics, economics and leadership ta mse S jess educated Negroes.” e He said the course also included ¢ 4nstruction in the elementary phil- osophy of nonviolence, social pro- test and “what prejudice is and how segregation works." es 2 #8 MR, HUNT emphasized that Dr. King’s organization hopes the pro- gram “will quickly outgrow its beginnings” and will eventuaily be sel up on an area-to-areg basis. The Highlander Folk School, , located deep in Tennessee's Cum- jj berland Mountains between Chat- .cuuuvpel aod Nashville, has been il invelved in the past in several political controversies. It has been stanchly defended by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, among othera, but, in 1960, a Ten- nessee state court revoked its charter after a legislative inves- aiigation charged tht Conamwnisis had lectured there. . _* 6 operate, i ca ase te Mr. Wood said Thursday that the Southern isti Leadership inference is aware that the school's ae tation might rub off, “We find po conducted itself in Ww i ‘ : oti te i not American or patri- Mr gio0d std the Highlander S5€S are Bart of a three-phase training program designed to de velop local Negro } i other es arene ship. The Schools” to be established by th Highlander graduates and g “cor Tespondence institute” to be con. ducted by the conference, — . "UL INFORM HEREIN IS U DATE, ATION CONTAINED CLASSIFIED aS) aes.