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Highlander Folk School — Part 16
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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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