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Highlander Folk School — Part 17

94 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Mar 27, 1965 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Highlander Folk School · 94 pages OCR'd
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ye, authority to investigate the Highlander Research Center of Knox County, and to investigate its activities and the activities of all persons and organizations associated therewith, . SECTION 2. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That said Committee shall have full and complete power to subpoena and compel the attendance of witnesses, to adopt rules of procedure, to order and compel the production of all records and documents pertaining to the Highlander Research Center and its activities and the activities of all persons and organizations connected therewith, and to do all things necessary to the end that said investigation shall be full and complete; said Committee shall be clothed with all the powers and authority conferred upon legislative committees by Sections 3-301 to 3-325, Tennessee Code Annotatad. SECTION 3. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That said Committee shall have.the authority and is hereby directed to employ and contract for the services of not more than two attorneys of ability and known integrity to aid and assist the Committee in the making of said investigation. SECTION 4, BE IT PURTHER RESOLVED, That said Committee shall have the authority to employ such clerks and clerical and other help as it may deem advisable and to provide office space and eqvipment for Committee personnel, to appoint a sergeant-at-arms and any assistants necessary with full authority to execute any and aii legislative process in any county of the State, ineluding but not restricted to subpoenas and subpoenas duces tecum as may be authorized by the Committee, The Committee shall likevise be empowered to incur for itself or members of its staff necessary expense in connection with tr2vel, stenographic services, court reporters, et cetera.
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