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Highlander Folk School — Part 16

97 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 96 pages OCR'd
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eo becn working with Esau Jenk- this summer. The theme-vof“the “Current Revolution” was carried for- ward the next day—Tuesday— | | by Dr. W. C, Beck of Florence ‘who discussed “Basic Issues the Current Local lution,” during the mo: Afternoon brought Fred Hen- ‘derson Moore, a Charleston Negro attorney, who spoke on “The Roie of the President’s Cormmission of Equal Employ- ment.” A general discussion of problems of equal employment followed. “The Church and Human Re- lations” received the group’s ~.--idiy Wednesday morning. | Speaking were the Rev. F. 0. |Pharr, past president of the | Charleston NAACP, and C. Con- irad Browne, Browne, associate director o: ‘Highlander, attended the first | seorkshop for three days with hus wife Ora and three of their i Ciindren. He returned briefly at! the end of the second session ta pick co Hichlander equip- ment. After a talk Wednesday aft- -inoi 6y Jenkins on “Is the \Second Step-—Political Educa- |tias—-lmportant?”, the group of way: 35 gathered at the Cara- a. heuse for a cook-out and ‘zation, While the young- rs played badminton and vol- l.v talk and the older v atched. Browne, who once nutentcd the University of Chi- cago divinity school, related his experiences prior to ["s Highlander staff. From 1849 ta 1963 he lived o Americus. Ga. on 1,106 |acze “Koinonia Farms—a bi- racial. religiously-oriented com- viet farm. Vividly be recount- lad the ‘“‘terropeeiectics used ,#eains! us by the people of the ree rvuued in the early 1740s, the farm was quietly ac- [ce epted for more than a decade itv the people of southwestern jGvargia’s Sumter County. Revo- “The Supreme Court decision |' |changed that. I guess the peo- ple felt Wye the had to do, something.” Trouble followed. ' And in a six-month period: there came legal reprisals, dy- namitings, shotgun blasts, a fire, and cross-burnings. Farm members were unable to buy or goods In Americus because ae a eroyeott and had to bring in supplies from 50 to 75 miles M away. farm eventually was *| closed. Turning to Mississippi. the 6 *| Highlander official spoke with *{a tone of despair about the then 3 missing civil rights workers ‘wend impatiently referred to the s#FBI as the Future Bureau of dfinvestigation: “It’s always ‘we ean come in after the crime is committed but they never do : anything prevent a crime.” ' evening program cen- tered around the presentation .[and discussion a a film em »|phasi the for voter registration, “Kaock on Every ‘|Door.”” Thursday morning H. A. De-| , Costa, a Charleston Negro con- by tractor, and Mrs. Ruby Corn- well, also of Charleston, treated ; “The Role of Higher Education in Achieving Jobs, Freedom,, and d Gitizenshi Dr. Scott Bates, a the University of Sewanee Denne~eontinued the- same discussion rofessor at South ing the | [OO et TT of the Highlanders, was followed on the by attorney tor Hurst and Rev. ore e ne gy vicechalrman|and Mere. Mary’ Brown Jed | amano ‘Direclors of of | schools. Douglas of the Baptist Center.} Friday the group ef % per- sons, nt the day at the Jen-’ ome at Atlantic Beach,’ f aor Myrtle about, 1 elles orth t) the day, sessions were held on “Advantages of Political Ma- turity ” and American Tlusions.” The: perticlpanis returned te ” John’s Island ay me ‘session Ps the accomplish- ents of the workshop Pen held Saturday morning. the group sp tived with Charleston Negro The group regathered. several attended a Second Ste r split up: fing the eek that followed the interns © p Responsibility. m4 |times, however. Sunday they jical Education~Wor' a "Edisto island, directed by jIsaac Robinson, Monday and Charleston and at Parker . Roberta Leonard Ferry. Mrs bet vs ‘Whrary was 0
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