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}. LANDER REPORTS — JULY 19° ° © . oa woo oe, : ~ WE WILL EDUCATE FOR INTEGRATION IN OUR RESIDENCE SESSIONS, IN OUR FIELD PROGRAM. IN OUR COMMUNITY! & BSW WES £4748; HIGHLANDER EXECUTIVE COUNCIL SAYS INTEGRATION IS EMMEDIATE The immediate and challenging barrier to democracy in the South is segregation. The immediate and challenging task ccnfronting those who desire a democratic Scuth is integration. The two sentences above sum up the thinking of Highlander’s Executive Council, a policy-making group of outstanding South- ern rural, iabor and community leaders, whose names are listed or page four of this issue. ~ From such a simple statement of facts came an entire pro- gramming by the Highlander staff for future leadership train- ing tntil integration is achieved in the South. Plans by staff Meminecs aig supporters envision the following: 12 WORKSHOPS EACH YEAR Folk School will Uishlander ssi grace: their community, union or civic organization in one workshop @ach month of the year, summer and winter. Forty students at each workshor, or u total of 480 resident students per year, from as many communities as possible in the ten southern states, lesadaoarc staGers train for ein iz work in Work itl can decidedly make an impact upon the integration movement in the South. In addition to the 12 workshops, there will be two inte- grated children’s camps each 5 er. (One is in progress as this is being written. See story on puge 4.) re ee .... IN RESIDENCE * |. . ¥t is hardly necessary to labor this point: living together produces a relaxation of barriers which makes adult education ten times easier."—Royce 8. Pitkin, President, Goddard College. 24 WEEES OF EXTENSION EACH YEAR The 12 workshops are not enough: People learn in a class- room, and they learn vividly; they also learn at home. Students who return to their communities and make a beginning for in- tegration shall be assisted by the field director. Wherever stu- dents begin-—in the schools, the churches, the labor unions, the sccial club or on the police foree—there they shall find the Highlander Extension Service. The work schedule of the Field Director will be. full at 24 Weeks a year on the road. Whe xGWWweveaerveweun & & a of Lh TR 5 Highlander field workers follow the students where they live, because work im their community is an extension of the class- room process. It is continuous learning by doing. 52 WEEKS EIN OUR COMMUNITY Highlander lives in its own ecmmunity 52 weeks a year. We do not believe that teaching exists in a va uum. We believe that we must educate in our own community if we are going to be the least successful in getting other people to work in their communities for integration. So we have already started. Our youth leader, presently an Antioch College co-op student, has organized a community club of youngsters who are quite active in various recreational activities. We notice already that many of them are swimming in Highlander Lake at the same time as the integrated campers are swimming. But swimming together by the youngsters is only « step, and Southerners know what a step it, is. Adults also are being encouraged to attend sessions when Negroes or colored foreign representatives are here. . We are proud of our local taxi drivers, delivery men and other help, in that they have given courteous service to these visitors. We shall train leaders for integration in the South; but our concentration on this single goal for the time being does not mean that we are drawing away from 24 years of concentration on Jeadership training for people in labor unions. For example, our next three workshops, announced elsewhere in this pub- lication, will draw from labor union members. The program of education in Highlanders ewn community is essential . . . otherwise, bow can we teach others to work in their community if we ourselves do not know how to do it? The art of teaching must also be « constant process of the teacher's learning.