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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan RE: HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND 7 EDUCATION CENTER 7 KNOXVILLE, TENNESSEE 61-7511 On 2/16/60 the charter of the Highlander Folk School was revoked by the State of Tennessee as the School was operating “a private racially integrated school" in violation of the Tennessee Code making it unlawful to allow white and colored persons to attend the same institution of learning. Horton subsequently opened the Highlander Research and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, which continues in existence. This organization has continuously been involved in the integration movement and as a result charges are being continuously made that it is "communist." These charges are based mainly on the opinion of individuals making the charges that being prointegration is being procommunist. This organization in June, 1963, was again involved in an incident involving the arrest of 28 white and colored men and women after a raid on a camp site near Maryville, Tennessee. This camp was being operated as a branch of the Highlander Research and Education Center and was being used as a workshop to train individuajs for the integration movement, RECOMMENDATION: That the attached letter to the Knoxville Office be approved instructing that the names of all officers, teachers and students connected with this organization be obtained in a very discreet manner and furnished to the Bureau. No active investigation is to be conducted, ~ ve! -2- wv