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Highlander Folk School — Part 12

68 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Dec 9, 1955 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 68 pages OCR'd
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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 he ees ~ aoe 1? 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 —10— Skill and knowledge emerge as - cr et py NP * A 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.) Te nee snCugic
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