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Highlander Folk School — Part 12
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stewardship, and this to the relation between officials and Jocal
membership, between locals and the national and inter-
national offices. No outside experts are called in to impress
the class with their status.
worker: study their own contract, its provisions, the local
political structure and other union interests.
“Some of the polincal heads in the United Packing-
house Workers of America are protesting the work Horton's
educationa! program is doing because it means that the pat
answers which these same politicos hand the rank and file
no Jonger suffice. Horton emphasizes what he calls the
“peowiaivr’ qather than the ‘drip’ system of education—
ideas perking up from the rank and file rather than dripping
doun from the top. Horton’s program differs basically from
other more conventional methods in }abor education because
of its emphasis on developing leadership from the sank and
file, and because it emphasiaes discussion topics chosen by
the workers rather than topics written on the biackboards
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by graff members.
{More detailed report on request.)
CONFERENCES ATTENDED...
Highlander stall members attended the NAACP Confer
ence, Chattanooga; Spring Educationa) Conference, Chicago;
Conference on Youth and Racial Unity Thru Educational
Opportunities, Columbia, $. C.; Race Relations Institute,
Fisk University, Nashville; Southern Regional Council for
Children. Under Six, Daytona Beach, Florida.
PUBLICITY
ARTICLES adoui Highlan ider appearing in I?S3
Montaxa Farmers Union News, January 28
National Union Farmer, January-February
Tre Dexver Post, February 7
~~ sf
fsccicr, a religions magazine published in Nash-
r)
ville, Tenn., in the February issue had as its prime
exhibit for “Brotherhood Week", an article about
Highlander.
ProcrResive AncuiTecturE, February
Rocky Mountain News, February 7
Tue Pacxincnouss Worker, March
Lo; Anceces Sunpay News, April 5
Tue San Francisco Cunonicre, April 8
Tur San Francisco News, April 8
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Tue Dairy News, Los ANGELES, April 9, an editorial,
“Fear of Losing Status Breeds Race Hatred” and an
article, “Meet Mr. Southerner, new style; fights
segregation,”
Tue American TEacnEr, April
Tue Annriocu Review, Spring lsue
Tue Witmincton Moxniwc News, May 12
Tue Sus Reporter, San Francisco, May 23, J. Maceo
Green’s Column, “The Weekly Report.”
District 3 Buape, UPWaA, May
THe PacxincHouse Worker, June
CIO News, July §3
ApuLt Leapessnir, July-August
Furniture Worxers’ Press, July-Augas:
RADIO...
The Highlander director was interviewed by Chet
Huntley, ABC, Los Angeles; by Leslie Claypool, KFWB,
Los Angeles; and by Robert Schultz, KPFA, Berkeley, in
August.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
GUMMARY...
Highlander ended the fiscal year with an operating
fund of $12,859.98 and a $5,000 reserve fund.
was $59,220.47. Expenditures were $54,524.96. (Detailed
financial statement on request.)
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