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Highlander Folk School — Part 3

69 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 69 pages OCR'd
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furnished this (qn ae office with the July 1941 issue of the Highlander Fling, the official mublicaticn of the HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL. The following pertinent articles are scot out: NATUMNI ARE CIO DELEGATES Yiss BILLIB*CAVINESS, a member of UCAPAWA from Memphis, and a student in Highlander'ts Spring term 1941, was elected a vice- presidont of the state CIO body at its Second arnual convention held in Chettanooga May 31, June 1. Obher former students of Highlander attending the convention as delepatcs we lair, Amalgamated Clothing Workers organizer apd holder ef the EleanopxRoosevelt scholarship in 1940; Pa ‘inn, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, Wrigley, Tennessee. Edr anb, ACWA, LaFollette, Tennessee; Zilphia Horton and Dillargfing were visitors. HFS Endorsement A resolution reiterating the endorsement of Highlander was passed. The resolution took notice of the fact that Highlander had been attacked recently by organizetions not identified with the labor movenent and said that "any attack on the Highlander Folk School by an individual or organization will be regarded as an attack on the organized labor mevement, and such individuals and organizations will brand themselves as enamies of organized lsbor in Tennessce and the South". The report of Poulfarist opher, cxecutive secretary and treasurer, showed remarkable progress in expanding the crganizaticn. William -pturnbdlazer, of the UMWA, was reelected president." "PLANS LAID FOR SRITERS SCHCOL Highlander will hold its third annual workshop for student writers July 28 through August 9. The session rill be under the diwsstion af the eekhesl and jas heine snranesred by Pou Craon 37 am ae ee ee ee wil ee ee ee icefiarrs ped PG bl ciaihale J hd ee eg Wailidi SMinickerbocker, ee Colli arris, MillenBrand, Babetic.. «Deutsch and Gcnevievetfagcard. THs TEACHERS Tsachers will be specially assembled for this session. In chargc of short steory and poetry will be MaryAiapsicy, novelist, magazine writer, ond former tcacher of writing at Hood Cclloge. -29-
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