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Highlander Folk School — Part 5

34 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 34 pages OCR'd
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S- Other spe.kors worct hike Smith, Tonnossce dircetor of the amiltomoted Clothing Workers of amoriess bis C. ardurson, IRSW represunti tives Lugh Ronking United iiins Workcre of Amrics, dis- trict represent-dives O. S. Baxtur, suberclional dirvetor of the Stecl Workers Orgrnizing Comaittcc, Che ttzncoza; itt Lynch, ALT= dernn Podvrutior. Of Hosicry workers ropr spentet tivc;} Froud Schmidt, Unitcd Toxtil, worzurs of woarria.j Roseme Wlkur, Retsil aid Wholo- srl. Cloris, rhiledclphic; John Boucho, Ci0O ruprcesentitin, Hew Orleans; Front: allen, rUiiS.., Bossumury Edword Woods, Intern.tionsl gmcricen Newspeoer Guild reoreusent: tive, Birminzhan; ond Virginia Foster Durr, cxccutive vievechirman of the Ncticacsl] Committcue to sbolisn the Poll Tax, sluoxtniric, Virginia. Se WaT TERS? OR NSHOP Tho third annual summer warl:shop for writcrs, July 28-august 9, brovrtht toscther twelve students from six southern statcs and from Illivois, wow Yor, cud th. vistrict of Colucic, This year the vorashon ws ontiruly in the hands of tho High- land -7tf T silson wes tho dircetor, Fiction wes teu sht by wry Lo eley, writer and former terencr of eruetive writing at Hood Colleure, lieryland. The mfority of the students wrote ond fiuisheod at losst two storias each. Charlvs Ferguson, cn associ:te editor of the Renders’ Dis est, oneouraged the usc of dignlindor for svurce metcricl in the nrop- aration cf different kinds of articles :nd news stories. For proce ticu.l cxpericnces, Mre Fer suson took his cluss (by imzinction) inte cditor's officeus, into homes of '"persourlitics' for intervicws, end inty cross country buses for the 'ersucl cequnaijtanee' story. Ono of his sossiuns wes e uducted in the mamoer of "Informrtion Please’, encthcr in the uanner cf ec country church revival. Text in the latter ecse wos 'Evurybody trl*s cbout Henven cin't soint thcro', und the students wore imorcssively ceutioned th.t 1] who tlk cbout writing cre not zolng to be writers if thuy simply telk about dt. Lezlon Jones, frecult: member of Uissouri St:.c Tegchurs Collose, iustruct.d the students in the ort ond ernft of nlsymking. Individ- vor worl: ses tyr'ncd incnd criticized by the grap. Tho second wool cf the mession ths entire eless workud out wid purfurnicd a pley on Hichlonder.
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