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HIGHLIGHTS OF TEN YEARS WN THE NEW INDUSTRIAL SOUTH 1932 School opens its doors in November on 40-acre mountain farm. @ Classes are held for people of Summerfield community. @ Beginning of ten-year program in home area. 1933 First series of annual residence terms for union leaders. @ Field program begins with assistance to striking coal miners at Wilder, Tennessee. (894 Library begins sending packages of books to union halls. @ Field program in Knoxville. 4 Founding meeting of FELLOWSHIP OF SOUTHERN CHURCHMEN held at school. 1935 Staff and students tour southern cities with program of labor plays, puppets, songs. @ ALLSOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOR CIVIL AND TRADE UNION RIGHTS held at school: first conference of the kind in the south. @ Cooperative farm garden and cannery begun in cuihtecuty @ Study groups in Chattanooga for hosiery and textile workers. 1936 TVA outlines reforestation plan for school. @ School broadcasts to England, via BBC, program of ballads, workers’ songs, stories, dances. . 1937 Making of “PEOPLE OF THE CUMBERLANDS,™ film on the work of the school. @ Stati members loaned for textile and shirt-workers organizing drive. {$38 First aanual work camp for college students, conducted jointly with Friends Service Com- mittee: community improvement work combined with study of the south. @ School organizes Grundy County Political Conference, which succeeds in electing labor candidates. @ School assists in setting up the SOUTHERN CONFERENCE FOR HUMAN WELFARE. 1939 First of yearly workshops for student writers, to focus creative talent on southern problems. @ Music director edits “LABOR SONGS” for Textile Workers and leads mass singing at unton’s national convention. ® Anti-poll tax case started in name of Henry Pirtle of Grundy County. 1940 Mrs. Roosevelt meets with staff and students at Chattanooga and gives annual scholarship at school for worker student. @ Summer work camp builds pottery kiln for Summerfield Cooperative. ® Workers’ cducation conference held for Business and Professional, and Industrial Y. W.C. A. Secretaries. }Y4) tyelu programs in New Orleans, Memphis, Clinton, Tennessee. @ Staff teachers are discus: sion leaders in United Auto Workers’ first southern educational conference. @ Traveling hbrary circulates u thousand books in Grundy County. 1949 Third and fourth Junior Union Camps for children of rural and industrial workers. @ Pub- lication of “UNDERSTANDING UNJONISM,” an analysis of year long field program in New Orleans. @ Founding of research department to service organizers, unions, Highlander alumni. @ Completion of 18th regular residence term for union students. Ct — qi aM yates . att wy 2y