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Highlander Folk School — Part 7

67 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Dec 30, 1941 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 67 pages OCR'd
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in a debate between the Grundy County Crusaders and faculty members of the Highlander Folk School, which was held at Sewanee, Tennessee, REYNOLDS stated that at this debate many accusations were hurled by the Grundy County Crusaders at the Highlander Folk School charging it with disrupting the morals of the community and being affiliated with the Communist Party, but that none of these charges were Specific and that they were all answered and explained by the faculty mambers, REYNOLDS stated thzv in all his association with the school he could find no indication of cither the policy or the program of the school being dominated by t12 Cormunists. REYNOLDS stated, however, that ho believed that the Communists would make evory effort to use this school to their advantage. REYNOLDS stated that he had resigned from the Board of the Highlander Folk School because he wes running for the City Council in Chattanoopa anc that the Highlander Folk School had reecived so much 4 adverse publicity in Chattanooga that any affiliation he night have at Bat ta \ 1. tad ~ \ that school would be detrinental in an election canpaign. , ee ee whose identity is knorm to the Bureau, roan if fat Fe 7 Fy . 3 + % AT SEUANES, TENNESSEE a & oe f Py whose identity is known to the Bureau
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