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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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Von og Cle" ire Lok. . Sree There are no identifiable references to .-- correspondent. : oe ee Conespondent wites apparently in self-justi- fication concerning her views on inté-gration expressing a segregationist's viewpoint while stating she is not... a segregationist. She asks whether integration is © 7 promoted by “communism" and then in her letter announces that she does not oppose integration but opposes... . communism. She encloses a clippiny from a newspaper’ - concerning the Highlander Folk School which is described — as teaching volunteer teachers so that they may return. to their comaunity and in turn teach the Negro people to read and write sufficiently well so that they can . a pass literacy tests to vote. The newspaper article P J Spe 7 stated the School's charter was revoked for violating the state segemtion laws. The case is reported to be yee presently under appeal. Correspondent asks whether — .. cas ah schools d@ this type are training Negroes to be saa pL communists and expresses the opinion that this schooI"s yee "leader and other ones have been investigated and brought fy | to trial for Communism." She wonders who is intervening in favor of the School's leader... - a, Correspondent furnished an address on her om ah c oF om 48 » The Highlander Folk School (HFS) has been the subject of numerous allegations that it is a commurist- school and the headquarters of communism in Eastern... Tennessee; due primarily to its racial character, ~~ These allegations have not been substantiated. The: -°-".:.. Bureau is cognizant of the numerous communist .. _ affiliationzof personnel affiliated with the HFS. The ~~ Bureau has not investigated this organization. (61-7511-266, 267)
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