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Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School film, 1957: Part 1

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In this silent film taken by Ed Friend for the Georgia Commission on Education at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee in September 1957, groups of white and African American men and women leave the Highlander Folk School library; an interracial group swims in a pond; and still photos show more integration at the school's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. The film is in two parts; the first section, shot in color, shows the swimmers and the library and the second section shows black-and-white still photos taken by Friend.The clip begins with white and African American men and women leaving the Highlander Folk School library. Some of the women wear skirts and dresses while others wear shorts; many of the men wear short-sleeve dress shirts. Among those identified in the clip is Aubrey Williams, a white man in a bow tie, who waves as he leaves the library. Williams had been the director of the National Youth Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and at the time of the Highlander anniversary, was publisher of the Southern Farm and Home magazine. Charles Gomillion, dean of the African American Tuskegee Institute, also exits the library. Gomillion was influential in African American voter registration in addition to being president of the Tuskegee Civil Association. Later, Rosa Parks and Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy walk out of the library together. The three from Montgomery, Alabama pause at the door and also pose with folk singer...
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Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

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Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. Adult Education
  3. African American Civil Rights Workers
  4. African American Clergy
  5. African American Men
  6. African American Women
  7. African Americans
  8. Anniversaries, Etc
  9. Audiences
  10. Automobiles
  11. Bicycles
  12. Blue Collar Workers
  13. Camera Operators
  14. Civil Rights
  15. Civil Rights Movements
  16. Civil Rights Workers
  17. Clergy
  18. Communism
  19. Daily Worker (Harlem, N.Y.)
  20. Dance
  21. Educators
  22. Employees
  23. Findlay Street Neighborhood House (Cincinnati, Ohio)
  24. Georgia Commission On Education
  25. Government
  26. Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
  27. History
  28. Labor Leaders
  29. Labor Unions
  30. Lakes
  31. Libraries
  32. Men, White
  33. Monteagle
  34. Monteagle (Tenn.)
  35. Newspaper Editors
  36. Photographers
  37. Photographs
  38. Politics And Government
  39. Race Relations
  40. Social Integration
  41. Social Movements
  42. Social Reformers
  43. Southern Christian Leadership Conference
  44. Southern Farm And Home (Magazine)
  45. Swimming
  46. Tennessee
  47. Tuskegee Institute
  48. United Packing House Workers Of America
  49. Women
  50. Women, White
  51. Youth

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