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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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. New York. (FBI. (? / | 7 4 ee . wv IS >= én | : MATION CONTAINED ) 4 wt co ALL IN: 0 t The attached was ‘gent to the r Magazines, Sy by iN a | ie -ector from Hearst 57th Street at K' a Avenue, New York 19, * et “rte 3, 1967 No reference is “made to the Director or ppt / 1 4 ewe owe wR OY LG ACTIVITIES Over the Labor Day weekend, Martin Lu Negro leader of Tenn. the militantly pro-integration forces, was the featured speaker at the Highlander Folk School. The Rev. Mr. King's association with Le this radical educational institution in the South calls for a lookig at the school!s activities and personnel. b- The itt ghlender Folk School at _Monteagle, Tennessee, was organized around 1932 by Myles Horton snd Don West, (See testing of Paul Crough, May 6, 1949, Subcanmittee of the Committee on me Tn his testimony, Mr. Crouch said: American Activities, page 193.) "I would like to mention in this connection that the Highlander Folk Schoo] at Monteagle, Tennessee, was a school organized by Myles Horton and Don West, and which Mr. /James7 Dombrowski shortly there- after joined," oy Paul Crouch, who gave the foregoing testimony concerning the Highlander Folk School, was the top Communist Party Tunctionary in ‘the South. ~ Speaking: of James Dombrowski, Mr. Crouch testified as follows: "I have met officially with him on a number of occasions as head of the Communist District Bureau of Tennessee...at this conference Mr’. Dombrowski gave me the impression of being completely pro=-Conmunistiz.— and anxious to collaborate with the Commmist Party and follow its * actual Party membership." A three-page tabulation of James Dombrowski's of ae qq. ‘tions is attached to this reporte/pm.. NOT (SL In March 1954, the Senate subeomml Efve ont£nPna? aT held hearings in New Orleans on the subject of thé Southern Conterengg, Frventions Pund, Ince, of which James Dombrowski was end
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