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Highlander Folk School — Part 19

74 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 74 pages OCR'd
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OLD pth tee hc oe em ae 2,” col paella td CR UNOCR FIRE ep 0 ORM ae ad. Ct Et “Hig lander Director Sa ys School » ae Not Cam muni st, Bu But in Same Field _ Fenena! Const os SEB rife = SeuraalConstitutigas Steff 4 iter “*MONTEAGLE, Tenn., Dec. 14. About two miles from this moun- fin resort is a small institution | a ie ie her a> Where race mixers plan the fight ke the shod has ever bet | | : siraight ene fag airding a “Satoge te High- geainst segredarfan in the South. a with eam “whe te clonk- “dag @ er said tre » Shs name onder Folk é. T got a a Passport te be. | wor Recessary to ie ie ernor might aise also. be Pai hash Gehook_has an “SRRUTHOUS ~Filig thpe this past summer, ” he said. |‘ mation compiled by the Georgia | ‘planting Berry, an alleged Com. Chat Beties its controversial rec. ra had to sign an affidavit say-|| Commission on Education. munist, af the school.” anf avedvement in labor and | g twas never 2 Communist to T. V. Williams Jr., the commis- “I say ‘alleged, be. Excial strife. Get the passp ort. jsion’s execplive Secretary | could be working f the Fi he Coe explains the FBI inves- |; claimed that the commission's re- Horton gai ig for the FBI, ; Highlander’s current activities; figations by saying, “We're in the }/ port on the integration workshop Ange nthe 1 patented Poke St Mees, e Teport showed a are concgntrated on training! game field the Communists are | held at Highlander over the Labor farge numpbers of whites and Ne- and three other | b—we just use different’ meth- {Day weekend was based on infor- eds." Asked to elaborate, he | mation gained by Ed Friend. a. aid: ; state employe, who “infiltrateaY 2° Ralp ley ein, president of | + “They say they are interested the sessions. : Uniled Workers” of | arica reas fercpis iipoughout th ae “ orte niveteat one of the Jounders of Hichlander, ac- tn social equality. We’ ré interest- Williams Made it appear thay™ * ge nl et knowledges thatthe, school has ¢d in social equality.’* ‘the integration sessions were sue | Na who aed Been connected Sim most inte-| - Highlander hit the headlines | per secret, - in the integration workshop as a: gation attempts since the US fe ‘0 months ago when the Geor-{/ Actually, the ’ meetin \Banelist discussing labor union | Supreme Court decision of 19544 gia Commission on Education 4 Bs were experience ja integratiqn, ‘blasted hibiti blic school, segre- | published a fo on jj open to the press and were cov: |*the governor’ ef Gesrzi decei Rroh! iting public school, segre- | Dublished a four-page newspaper-{' ered by Tennessee newsmen. 'f re g Ges rgia's. deceit- §eilon. a yeuk Situtioe ie pharging that the in- [' Friend registered al the school 2 -. wea aks ght. for - “Communist traig- J as an e: ee one “THE SCHOOL WAS established be school.” Georgia. mploye of the Siate of |Eocegregation appear ‘ts be 2 it September, 1932, by Horton and eee As for the suby Corhmunist, monopoly... | Donald L. West, a Georgian with 2 THE COMMISSION, set up by f | tions isled Le wersive organiza- | “The flagrant dishsnesty of itie i @toog tecord of affiliations with Be Georgia Legislature to help | was signed by. Gov. feport_ which governor's alleged report, * Hek. Eemmunist front groups.- es ate ve segregation, changed.that |f fin as commission chairman, they [een SAG AS pparent in ‘photo. * It didn’t take the school Jong to igblabder" “Fave - PUB glans fl are a matter of public record and tion appearing under . ide t establish itself as a center of con- = om Pra e | i | have been for some time Brape wares purper’s entify troversial socia: philosophy. a amt dar i. «ae TEN me as one group including Sivdalz + ; ; ; n * On Dec. 15, 1932, the Grundy aot Me a THE GEORGIA REPORT) Party Said to be the ‘name ‘f fou: unty Board of Education Aa” ‘prook Fe chin af named i sebaraie communist .: Berry. ¥ ‘ po a nw TSons : rred -Highlander from using Juno had been nb af with ee, oat Ee Aran | _“T don't know Berry cr wheth- @gunty school buildings becalise Hightander also had be plied as a oiticia of the American’ | er he even appears in the pic- ¥ alleged teaching of political] ca’ with organizati SEieled oo j Communist Pary and a reporter Jture, for 1 have never met the aiter that was “Red ox Commu: Banizallons e as [it for the Daily Worker—as being y. but T ais! in appearance.” cammunist fronts by the House ' in attendance at the Labor Day [™. ut I do Know that T am , Bhs echanl has rantinua 2 ne dae | Un-American sbclipities Commit- | |; integration warkchon ; Rot the person whom the caption | ~ He SCG! AAs continued under ie. 7 fe ~ hint ai . . identified as me.” a close, surveillance by the Federalf ge -< “Nu ia | Horton claims he did not know}! ‘That Highlander has been ex- Bureau of Investigation and Hom ‘ Berry until introduced to him by tremely active in some_ofuthe | io unself says, ‘I've been in- . Georgia's own Ed Friend, the | ts rover". B ent. Berry en-. at the Wo “ES a. i [iegce wrijgr, Horton declared. | fiated 0 . much “the WBE ki § my Wow’ for % years* | 4 ‘ THE ATLANTA JOURNAL AND CONSTITUTION Atjanta, Georgia | G/-* Gf TEM 12 OE oe . . | NOT REGCOR™ =O TY AMET ALTO TAANT LT Re: HIGHLANDER. FOLK SUn0Gn IS-C Atlanta File: 100-@070 T7“== INDEXED BS OGH 6S uAN, 51888 53.136 Va,
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