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Myles Horton

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Description: Three-quarter length portrait of Myles Horton.
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Crippled Children Fire Drill

Date: 11 28 1932
Description: Crippled children in a fire drill at Longfellow School, 1002 Chandler Street. Greenbush Neighborhood. "They emerge in two orderly files, one for the most a...
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Little Prairie School

Date: 04 29 1955
Description: Group portrait of students, Little Prairie School, District #2, taken outside in front of school building, including teacher Miss Vera Frederickson.
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Outdoor Meeting at Highlander Folk School

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Description: Four people have an informal meeting outdoors at Highlander School. Three of them are seated on the grass and one is seated on a chair. Myles Horton on the...
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Guy Carawan

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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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Three Men at Highlander

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Description: Unknown group of three men looking over a pamphlet at Highlander Folk School.
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Farmers Union Workshop Member

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Description: A Farmers Union member from Astatde, Tennessee, attending a workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Food, Tobacco, and Agricultural Workshop Participant

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Description: A member of the Food, Tobacco and Agriculture workshop at Highlander Folk School posing near a tree with a fedora and cigar in his hand.
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Female Civil Rights Workshop Participant

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Description: A female Civil Rights workshop participant standing outside at Highlander Folk School.
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L.A. Blackman Outside Highlander Library

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Description: L.A. Blackman, from Elloree, South Carolina, standing outside of Highlander Library.
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Portrait of Zilphia Horton

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Description: Portrait of Zilphia Horton, wife of Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander Folk School.
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"Stuff the Scout" on Tri-State College Campus

Date: 02 19 1969
Description: "Stuff the Scout" on Tri-State College campus. Top image shows men 'stuffed' in an International Harvester Scout. Bottom photograph shows a woman sitting o...
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Acrobat School

Date: 1976
Description: A girl tries some acrobatic moves on a rope at Acrobat School, Circus World Museum, a Wisconsin Historical Society site. The silhouette of another acrobat ...

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