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on ~ 0-19 (Rev. 2-13-61) f Tolson Parsons Mohr Belmont Callahan —__ Conrad —__ DeLoach _____. “ Evans Nv Malone Rosen Tavel Trotter —_ W.C. Sullivan __ Tele Room Ingram | i hi nd all Gandy [pene SCHOOH! ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED loses appeal in =, {:C7EIN IS UNCLASSIFIED state supreme court | UATE_3/c/s+ BY_sPraral ee) Pp ne Sat ere ve ' _ :, ta DAYS. 2 a7 eficxsom Folk Schoo}, ‘Mont- énglé, Tenn., fos ier Found in its battle for survivel when the Tennes- see Supreme Court on April § upheld a lower court order revoking the school’s ORDERED TO CLOSE « al charter and ordered it to close, The school, founded in 1932, has long §& been under attack because of {ts complete | integration. Highlander has stimulated Negro voter registration by training 3 People to teach literacy. Recently the school and Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Confer- } ence announced 6 joint training project { . for sit-in demonstrators... . a The school and jts directors, Myles bt estes and Beptima™Clark, have also f/f -+¢ ii # en Attacked” a8“comemrmnist.” In 1057 they were'Gbfended against this charge - by Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt, a long-time j defender of the school, and by Dr. Rein- hold Niebuhr and others. ‘ The present case began in 1959 after .& party at the school was raided by local 7 The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Dally News _ Police and three staff members were ar- | ‘ - The Evening Stor rested on intoxication charges. The State New York Herald Tribune . Supreme Court ordered the school closed om the grounds that Horton had oper- New York Journal-American ated the school for private gain and that New York Mirror intoxicating beverages had been sold on ly N the premises. The Court did not rule on New York Datiy News another holding of the lower court that New York Post the school violated state segregation laws. a The New York Times The New Leader The Wall Street Journal pate__ 4227-61 _ "National Guardian" REC 75 le OSE. & Page 7 ¥ Vv FY -103 wor RFCORDED 19) aPR 25 1961 \ j . 4 The Worker ‘ —_— eee ER TRE ag Teme BT