Series: Audio Recordings

Content notes on tapes; compiled by researcher John Glen

Adult Education Association - Residential Adult Education Section

Proceedings of business meeting, 1960 October 16
Scope and Content Note: Chaired by Myles Horton; primarily concerning plans for future conferences.

Attacks and investigations

Myles Horton reports informally to Highlander staff on the Eastland hearings, 1954 March
Scope and Content Note: Discusses his testimony and that of Paul Crouch, Jim Dombrowski, Aubrey Williams, and Virginia Durr.
Note: See content notes in Box 110 (Part 2).

Publicity

Radio program, “Alma John and the Homemakers' Club,” 1956 May 8
Scope and Content Note: Broadcast from New York station WWRL. Program guests were Myles Horton, Rosa Parks, and Reverend Richard Stenhouse and discussion centered on Mrs. Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.

Sea Islands

Septima Clark, 1955?
Scope and Content Note: An oral essay by Clark on the historical background of the Sea Islands with information on agriculture, schools, housing and living conditions. This is followed by a report on her recent activities in the Islands.

Interviews, circa 1955
Scope and Content Note: By an unidentified interviewer with Micah Jenkins, chairman of the [White] Citizens' Council of Charleston, South Carolina, and with another man, probably Creighton Frampton, Charleston Superintendent of Schools, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision banning segregated schools. Both men dislike the decision, feel it impinges on their individual rights, and feel that the NAACP is communist-inspired. Following the interviews is a portion of a speech by an unidentified man (possibly Stanley Morse, president of the Grass Roots League of Charleston) charging that integrationists are revolutionaries and linking African-American leaders with communism. (Mr. Jenkins is identified on the tape; the other names are written on the box as is the statement "Recorded at Johns Island."

Report by Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson?, 1956 February 6
Scope and Content Note: Report of a workshop at Johns Island which concerned cooperatives, voting and registration, and housing.

Septima Clark introduces Johns Island students, circa 1957
Scope and Content Note: Students are from the Highlander Adult School on Johns Island. They give their opinions of the school. This is followed by singing and the awarding of a certificate to each student.

Unidentified meeting

Meeting on St. Helena's Island, 1958 May 5
Scope and Content Note: Meeting of local farmers featuring speeches by Philip T. Seabrook, county farm agent, Mrs. Louise Johnson, county home demonstration agent, and Esau Jenkins who encouraged his listeners to form a voters club.

Meeting on Edisto Island, 1958 circa June 10
Scope and Content Note: Meeting of an Edisto Island local club with Solomon Brown presiding and Esau Jenkins speaking.

Meeting on Johns Island
Scope and Content Note: Beginning of a meeting the next night of the club on Johns Island.

Meetings of Local Clubs, 1958 July
Scope and Content Note: The Wadmalow meeting featuring a talk by Esau Jenkins is followed by the beginning only of an Edisto Island meeting. Also contains a Johns Island meeting.

Charleston Heights workshop on Voting and Registration, 1958 September 22
Scope and Content Note: Organized by Mrs. Mary Lee Davis, featuring talks by Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins, and others.

Report by Septima Clark, circa 1959 March
Scope and Content Note: Report on activities in the Sea Islands since early December. In the final part of the tape she answers written questions concerning leadership training as applied in the Islands.
Note: See content notes in Box 110 (Part 2).

Palmetto Voters Association Annual Meeting, Johns Island 1959
Scope and Content Note: Includes speeches by Esau Jenkins, Reverend Glover, and attorney John H. Wright.

Workshops

United Nations workshop group discussion, 1954 August 7
Scope and Content Note: Led by Myles Horton and concerning leadership development.

25th Anniversary workshop, 1957 September 2
Scope and Content Note: Featuring reports from workshop sub-groups, a general discussion of Highlander's program and future by John Thompson and Myles Horton, speeches by Aubrey Williams and Martin Luther King Jr., a tribute to volunteer workers by Septima Clark, and songs by Pete Seeger.