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ofvep STATES DEPARTMENT or Gsrice FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Knoxville, Tennessee In Reply, Please Refer ae ire April 19, 1967 HIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND . EDUCATION CENTER i” The Knoxville News-Sentinel, a daily publication, in the Home Edition issue of April 12, 1967, reported that the House of the Tennessee Legislature had passed a_ resolution calling for a legislative investigation of the Highlander Research and Education Center. It was reported that the Senate of the Tennessee Legislature had delayed action on the resolution. It was reported there was = — growing opposition to the measure among State Senators. . One representative, who was opposed to the resolution, stated that in the early days Highlander was really a labor school, teaching workers in the South how to end organize and there was still some anti-labor people in os the county he represented. He also claimed that persons sympathic to Highlander planned to boveott adqainat a loca) fee wee a om ieee eee = Ses ees ee et Mitta SS eee Se Se Knoxville supermarket chain which did not hire Negroes. A representative in favor of the resolution stated that the Mayor of Knoxville is upholding the school and an opponent replied the Legislature is being put in a most unusual position in considering the resolution if the Mayor of Knoxville is upholding the school, The East Tennessee Civil Liberties Union has urged the State Senate to reject the resolution. - ; It has previously been reported that the 1959 State Legislature sought to revoke the school's charter following an investigation in March, 1959, by a Legislative committee. ALLIRFORMATION CONTAINED 2 =, HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED = muon > DATE cis/ed_BY oPeart ice)