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Highlander Folk School — Part 17
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whe Real Reds.» |
, Horton and the school had :
.fome difficulty in successfully °
‘ refuting such charges at the.
time. The reason: the only
: two well known Communists
‘ seen fairly frequently around
Highlander in the early days,
' Paul Crouch and H. &. Rose,
were by this time making the |
:-Tounds of the congressional :
- . committer hearings, Lika:
. scores of other professional
Communists they wera singing
their hearts out for pay. They
—and Horton — were suspect
“among the Commubista. :
' In those years hard-core
Communists were trying to in-
filrate the labor movement,
. dust as they are trying te
infiltrate the civil rights .
movement today, and this
" May account for the presence
ef such known Communists as
Grouch and Ross at High-
lander.
| Today -a revived Highlander .
exists under a new name ats
Knoxville. it has under way .
training schools for eivil
rights workers and literacy
courses at half a dozen sites
across the South. And soon .
it will come up with a Ppro-
gram for Appalachian poverty
areas. :
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