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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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Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: A woman speaking at a Civil Rights workshop.
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Checkers at Civil Rights Workshop

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Description: Two men playing checkers, while another reads a journal, taking a break from a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Fannie Lou Hamer

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Description: Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 - 1977), an American voting rights activist and civil rights leader, visiting the Highlander Folk School. Two men are standing in th...
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Alice Cobb at Civil Rights Workshop

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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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Portrait of Septima Clark

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Description: Civil Rights activist, Septima Clark, at Highlander Folk School.
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Civil Rights Workshop Members Wearing Hats

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Description: Two members, one male and one female, of a Civil Rights Workshop at Highlander Folk School, participating in a game. The man is wearing a homemade hat.
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Civil Rights Group Meeting near Highlander Lake

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Description: Civil rights group meeting in field at Highlander Lake. Fifth from the left, Charlotte Meacham, American Friends Service Committee, former Highlander stud...
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Esau Jenkins

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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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Voter Registration Activists from Charleston

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Description: Voter registration activists from Charleston, South Carolina. Charles Wilson seated on right.
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Dr. Arkapece Stevens

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Description: Highlander board member Arkapece Stevens drinking a Coke.
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"Highlander Flash" Newspaper

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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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Zilphia and Myles Horton Reading

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Description: Myles Horton and Zilphia Horton reviewing some written materials at Highlander Folk School.
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Catherine Winston

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Description: Catherine Winston, a staff member at the Highlander Folk School, reading a book and smoking a cigarette.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Speaking at Highlander

Date: 08 1957
Description: Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library.
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Eleanor Roosevelt with Friends

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Description: Eleanor Roosevelt, on left, shaking hands with Mrs. Jennings Perry, standing. May Justus is on the right. At Highlander Folk School. Possibly part of 25th ...
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Rosa Parks at Segregation Workshop

Date: 07 24 1955
Description: Dr. C.H. Paris, Fred Patterson, and Mrs. Rosa Parks attending a Segregation Workshop at Highlander Folk School.
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Thorsten Horton, Myles Horton, and Rosa Parks

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Description: Thorsten and Myles Horton, sitting on left, watching Rosa Parks, standing and speaking at Highlander Folk School.
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Rosa Parks at Clinton Students Gathering

Date: 1956
Description: Rosa Parks attending a Highlander Christmas vacation event for Clinton Black High School Students, the first integrated in the South.
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Wipe Out Discrimination

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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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