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Description: | Myles Horton, co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, walking near lake. On the patio of the Horton house. |
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Description: | Highlander staff meeting: left to right; Tom Ludwig, Myles Horton, Catherine Winston, Zilphia Horton. |
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Description: | Portrait of Myra Page, an author and Antioch coop student, who was both a student and later a teacher at Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Tom Ludwig and Vida Cox [Ludwig], a neighbor of Highlander Folk School, sitting in a Jeep together after having been married. The couple met while at the s... |
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Description: | Alice Cobb (left), a Highlander Folk School staff member, and an unidentified workshop participant during a Civil Rights workshop at the school. |
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Description: | Indoor portrait of Claudia Lewis, who started a Nursery School at Highlander Folk School in the early 1930s. She came from the Bank Street School, which he... |
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Description: | Alice Cobb (right) and Bernice Robinson (left), in front of the main school building. |
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Description: | Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette. |
Date: | 1934 |
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Description: | Myles Horton sitting, shirtless, typing on a typewriter on his lap while sitting outdoors. |
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Description: | Zilphia Horton talking to an oil worker from the CIO school. |
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Description: | Signed photograph of Guy Carawan, a folk musician, playing an open-backed 5-string banjo. Presented to Highlander Folk School. Inscription reads, "Wishing ... |
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Description: | Myles Horton visiting citizenship school sewing class for younger members; teacher, Bernice Robinson. "Modernage" sewing machine featured. |
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Description: | Esau Jenkins, whose request for help registering citizens on Johns Island provided the basis for the citizenship school program at Highlander Folk School, ... |
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Description: | Hod Carriers Union and Workers Alliance during W.P.A. period, community meeting near the school in the late 1930s and 1940s. Depicted: Ralph Tefferteller, ... |
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Description: | Strike of Chattanooga Packinghouse Workers. A number of workers, one holding a picket sign, are sitting on a railroad track. |
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Description: | Interior view of the entrance to the Highlander Library, with a CIO student entering the doorway. The poster on the window reads: "CIO says, 'Wipe out Disc... |
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Description: | Shell labor rally at an unknown location. Signs include the sayings, "Equal Pay for Women," "Negro and White, Unite and Fight," and "Let the Packers Pay O... |
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Description: | CIO school in the 1940s. Features two women reviewing the "Highlander Flash," a newsletter produced by the Highlander Folk School. |
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Description: | Highlander Folk School instructor Estelle Thompson showing leaflet-making and stencil cutting at CIO school. |
Date: | 1947 |
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Description: | CIO Session at Highlander Folk School featuring Frank McCallister, standing. Graph shows number of Americans employed vs. number of American workers union... |
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