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Photograph of workshop participants at Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee, 1957 August 31

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A photograph of workshop leaders and participants at the 25th Anniversary Session and meeting of Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee on August 31, 1957. Myles Horton and Don West founded Highlander Folk School in Grundy County, Tennessee, 1932. Highlander became a center for biracial meetings and workshops, where some of the most important figures of social movements studied. Pictured from left to right: Ralph Helstein, Myles Horton, Rosa Parks, unidentified man, Septima Poinsette Clark, unidentified man, unidentified man, Charles Gomillion, and Bernice Robinson. Forms part of the Nashville Banner Archives. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 3.25 x 4.25 in.
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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. Activists
  2. African Americans
  3. Anniversaries
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Civil Rights Movements
  6. Civil Rights Workers
  7. Clark, Septima Poinsette 1898 1987
  8. Gomillion, Charles G. (Charles Goode), 1900
  9. Grundy County
  10. Grundy County (Tenn.)
  11. Helstein, Ralph
  12. Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
  13. History
  14. Horton, Myles, 1905
  15. Labor Movement
  16. Meetings
  17. Monteagle
  18. Monteagle (Tenn.)
  19. Nashville
  20. Nonviolence
  21. Parks, Rosa, 1913 2005
  22. Race Relations
  23. Robinson, Bernice, 1914 1994
  24. Sources
  25. Southern States
  26. Study And Teaching
  27. Tennessee
  28. Women

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