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: jon Be ee ee Se pe te ee pine pee ee eg eg Or pe mee . ’ a 7 . Hera a a net ‘h Highlander Plan Designed To Help Negro Pass V: otfng’ Test_ Horton said he is prepared tojhave done it themselves.” charges of communism levelle Monteagle (UPI) — Highlander|@Ppea!l the case al] the way to the/ The teachers for the schools get|against Highlander. Folk School, a liberal! outpost in}/U.S. Supreme Court. But right/their training at tntensive work-| Horton himself has been calle the rolling Southeast Tennessee|[0w he is giving leas thought tojshops at Highlender. Horton saidia “Communist.” He said he ‘is hill country, is quietly at work on|Highlander’s legal problems thanjhe has found that learning is ac-|Democrat and a Presbyterian “bi By LEON DANIEL aun the “thes! project designed to make the|he is to what he calls his “citizen-|celerated “when the motivation is|I'm certainly not a Communist.’ i weted|the polls. . In explaining how the plan| “The mechanics of the progr : con-: Highlander is training volunteer|works, Horton Hkes to talk about/were worked out by Mrs, Septi /divilsckools to teach flliterate adult|the people there are Negroes and|ing with the plan for years ‘ siris..Negroes to read and write welllvery few of them, according to|she worked out the teaching de- = tores, lscathern Negro's volce heard at|ship achools.”. first class citizenship. He puts it this way: “If I wer am|a Communist, I can assure yo ma|there would tbe a lot more Con ack-|teachers, whe return to their|Johns Island, a rural area off the|Clark, our educational director,’|@unists in Tennessee than ther willjsouthern communities and set up{coast of South Carolina. Most ofjhe said. “I have been experiment- edu outer” Wink Jip thet good a but : _-ss literacy testa for|Horton, are literate. 2 . . t asivoting. “We opened a achool in a com-! Highlander ts financed by con- Freezable Dressing | The school has traveled a rocky|munity there in 1956," he said.|tributions from throughout the . ’ road since it was founded in 1932/“There were 208 Negroes and of|United States. Among the more]! For Salad Developed “amajby Myles Horton, .a native of Sa-|these about 30 voted. Now more|prominent backers of the school fall. |Vannah in segregation -minded/than 700 are registered and almost/arg Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and Albany, Cal «—- Frozen gale West Tennessee, alt of them vote.” Dr, Reinhold Niebuhr, well-known dressing fs devel tt The racisily-mixe@ school’s char-| He said that as more Negroesitheologian. ’ & a new Gevelopmen é ocns|ter was revoked for violating the|began voting on Johns Island) Horton said he founded the/S¢ientists of the United States D Poo ag j ; H Fs, -., : ad a pa - * | jet.te's ocptegation laws following|roads were buitt and publicjschool “to teach the theory of de-lpartment of Agriculture. A dre: avis vide'v publicized investigation|gchools were improved, mocracy and brotherhood,” andjing made of safflower oll, wax Lo : 2 ou. Teusussec legislature.) “None of this hag been done forlthe school’s purpose has remained!rice flour, and fresh egg yolks b: won) But the schoo] was permitted tojthe Negroes by the local whites,”/the same down through the years.|proved stable at 10 degrees Fat ‘et coutinge operations pending ap-|Horton sald. “With the impetus} A congressional committee, as/enheit. The sclentists now ho: . Sot ste os court order Hft-|and support of the school, taught|well as the Tennessee legislature,|to give the product stability Uae tie charter. by local volunteer teachers, they'was once directed to emoke out!zero. , ii, pe ae A mer TF ane ani RRP Eee ie mirn 4 ALL INFORMA HEREM: 1S ate DATE 3\aIo4_B Eases) Of- 251-265 "