Part 14 (M2019-039; Audio 515A/245): Additions: Highlander Education and Research Center Archives, 1931-1997
Physical Description: 33.0 cubic feet (86 archives boxes and 3 flat boxes), 1 audio recording, 8.6 cubic feet of photographs (16 archives boxes, 8 photo boxes, and 1 negative box), and 0.2 cubic feet of transparencies (1 archives box) 
Scope and Content Note

The Highlander Education and Research Center Archives sent 30 processed series to the Wisconsin Historical Society in 2019. When possible the description and order of the records has been kept as the Center prococessed them. The boxes were renumbered to fit into the WHS system, the Center's box numbers follow, labeled as "HREC Box/Folder #/#". The series numbers start with "HREC", followed by the series number and title. Some of the series were not transferred including: HREC-0018 to HREC-0022, HREC-0027 to HREC 0028, HREC-0034, and HREC-0038.

The series accessioned are as followed:

1. HREC-0001 Highlander Center Collections
2. HREC-0002 Myles Horton Papers
3. HREC-0003 Mike Clark Papers
4. HREC-0004 Emil Willimetz Papers
5. HREC-0005 Olive Stone Papers
6. HREC-0006 Beth Bingman Papers
7. HREC-0007 Rich Kirby Papers
8. HREC-0008 Helen Lewis Papers
9. HREC-0009 Highlander Center Photograph Collecgtion
10. HREC-0010 Weaving Our Lives Slideshow
11. HREC-0011 Summer Youth Workshop Slideshow
12. HREC-0012 Myles Horton Memorial Slideshow
13. HREC-0013 Highlander Cultural Program Slideshow
14. HREC-0014 Nicaragua Slides
15. HREC-0015 Yellow Creek Hearing Slides
16. HREC-0016 Jobs with Justice Slideshow
17. HREC-0017 Central American Slides
18. HREC-0023 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Records
19. HREC-0024 Myles Horton Collection of Folk School Records
20. HREC-0025 Lanie (Elaine Van Brink) Melamed Papers
21. HREC-0026 Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Records
22. HREC-0029 Welsh Coal Miners Photograph Collection
23. HREC-0030 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Records
24. HREC-0031 Sunflower County Election Organizing Records
25. HREC-0032 Environmental Research Files
26. HREC-0033 Appalachian Land Ownership Study Records
27. HREC-0035 Highlander Research and Education Center Photograph Collection
28. HREC-0036 Women's Workshop Records
29. HREC-0037 Candie Carawan Education Coordinator Papers
30. HREC-0039 Poor People's Campaign Records

Series: HREC-0001 Highlander Center Collections, 1931-1981
Physical Description: 11.8 cubic feet (32 archives boxes). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group contains various materials produced by the Highlander Research and Education Center, including administrative materials, documentation of various programs, articles, and speeches written by members of Highlander's staff, and publications such as newsletters. Materials span the time period from Highlander's founding in 1932 up to 1981, with the bulk of the materials created from the 1950s through the 1970s.

Subseries: I: Administrative Records, 1951-1981

Annual Reports

1951, 1969

Board of Directors

Annual meetings, 1969-1973

HREC constitution and by-laws

Correspondence, includes general correspondence and mailing lists

Financial Records, 1968-1969, 1971-1972

Capital campaign, 1968-1971

Capital campaign, Highlander

Fundraising letters

Horton expense account, 1968 February-1971 June

Property

Bay Mountain

Monteagle

Staff

Field reports, 1967-1976

Field reports and workshop reports, 1972-1976

Inter-office memoranda

Minutes of meetings and staff reports, 1962 December-1975 August

Personnel policies

Fundraising, mailings and monetary returns 1968-1973

Minutes of meetings and staff reports, 1970-1975

Subseries: II: Program Papers, 1938-1971

Alumni Publications

Highlander Folk School Review, 1938

It Happened to Us, 1939 Summer

We the Students, 1939 Winter

The South Tomorrow, 1939 Spring

Cumberland Campers, 1941 Summer

25th Anniversary address delivered by Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., 1957 September 2

Appalachian Pilot Project

Appalachian Project, 1965

Appalachian Self-Education Program (ASEP), 1971

Attacks and Investigations

Black Power and charges of communism, 1966 October 15

The Fifth Column, 1967

Georgia Commission on Education

King, Martin Luther, Jr., affidavit on Highlander 1967

Ludwig, Tom, statement 1954

Smoky Mountain Banner

State of Tennessee Legislative Investigation, 1967

State Legislative Investigation, 1967

State of Tennessee Supreme Court, 1961

Tax-Exempt Status IRS Investigation, 1953-1963

Tax-Exempt Status IRS Investigation (continued), 1953-1963

Citizenship Schools

General, 1965

Resource Material

Extension Programs

Chicago, Illinois

Background, 1969-1970

Uptown Area Peoples' Planning Coalition, 1969

Young Lords, 1969-1970

Young Patriots, 1969-1970

New Mexico

Highlander West, 1969

Clippings

Highlander's involvement in area

Bibliography

Alianza de Los Pueblos Libre

Correspondence

Newspaper clippings

Political Activities of [Reies?] Tijerina

Opposition

Projects involving the Free City State of San Jacquin

Publications

Workshops at Ghost Ranch

Workshops at Gilberto Ballejo

Amarilla Cooperative

United Mexican-American Students, clippings

Film Center, contains a script for "Of a New Day Begun”

Goddard Adult Degree Program

Correspondence and Field Reports

Student materials

Background and course outlines

Students

Colow, Naomi

May, Ezzie

Miller, Frank

Salinger, Warren

Todd, Grace

Ullman, Ken

Guest Book, Highlander 1964-1971

Music and Culture, contains a background paper for the program by Klein, Michael

“We Shall Overcome”

Nursery School recruitment brochure

Pamphlets, Highlander

Program Proposal, general 1969-1970

White community organizing, 1965-1967

Workshops

Appalachia, 1964 March 12-14

Appalachian Community Leadership, 1967 October-1969 February

Communication, 1971 July 10-11

Freedom Schools, 1965

Mountain Music

Multi-Racial, 1970 April

Negro Candidates, 1966

Public Schools Integration, 1956 March 3-4

White Community Projects, 1965 July

Other

Subseries: III: Subject Files, 1963-1979

Adult Education

American Civil Liberties Union (Tennessee), 1968-1969

Appalachian bibliographies, 1963, 1970

Appalachian Economic and Political Action Council (AEPAC), 1965 June

Appalachian Educational Laboratory, 1968

Appalachian Foundation

Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People (AGSLP)

Appalachian Poverty Game

Appalachian South Folklife Center, 1968

Appalachian Volunteers

Correspondence, 1968-1979

Staff memos and minutes, 1967-1969

Proposals and reports

Quarterly reports, 1968 November

Reader and pamphlets

Cole, Robert, article

Clippings

Mulloy, Joe

Appalshop, 1972 July

Arthur Morgan School, 1964

Bevel, James, mimeographed letter and press release regarding a march to the United Nations in support of the ratification of the UN's Genocide Charter 1970

Bibliographies, Adams, Frank

Black History

Black Lung Association

Blossom, Fred 1966 August

Center for Emergency Support

Civil Rights

Alabama

Mississippi, 1964-1968

South Carolina

Tennessee

Virginia, 1968

Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA)

Community Development Inc., 1967 July

Congress for Appalachian Development

General correspondence, 1966-1968

Caudill, Harry and Anne 1966-1968

Ebersole, Gordon 1966-1968

Ogle, Milton 1966-1968

Membership, 1966-1968

Minutes, 1966-1968

Poor People's Congress, 1966-1968

News releases and speeches, 1966-1968

Whisnant, David 1966-1968

Cooperatives

Council of Southern Mountains (CSM)

Board of Commissioners, 1969

Commissions

Community Action, 1969-1971

Education, 1969-1971

Natural Resources, 1969-1971

Poor People's Self-help, 1969-1971

Program Development

Correspondence, 1967 April-1970 July 28

Meetings, minutes, and memos 1967

Membership, 1971-1975

Publications

Report on the Appalachian Project, 1967

Consultation on Appalachia, reports 1968 February 26-29

Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA)

Consultation Reports, 1970- 1971

Hunger Conference, 1970- 1971

Memoranda, meetings, etc. 1970- 1971

Reports and publications, 1970- 1971

Social, Economic, and Political Issues Task Force 1970- 1971

Cross-Cultural Education, 1962-1976

Crusade for Justice

Ecology papers, 1970- 1971

Educational Outpost

Federation of Appalachian Community Efforts

Federation of Communities in Service (FOCIS)

Fryer, Lee

Garland, Jim

Gregory, Dick 1968

Institute for the Study of Nonviolence, 1966, 1968

International Workers of the World (IWW)

Jackson-Clay County Poor People's Action Council

Johnson, Cliston

JOIN Community Union

Knoxville Council on Human Relations

Ku Klux Klan, 1976

Marrowbone Folk School

Mexican-American Youth Organization (MAYO)

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP)

Mississippi Summer Project (more commonly known as Freedom Summer), 1964

Model Valley Project

National Student Association (NSA)

Human Relations Seminar, 1965

Southern Student Human Relations Project, 1961, 1964

Native Americans

Bibliographies and Publications

“California: The Battle of Big Bend”

Clippings

Knowlton, Clark

Menominee

Nisqually River (Washington State)

Teaching and Research in Bi-Cultural Education (TRIBE)

Neighborhood Youth Corps

“The Objector, West Virginia: Occupied Colonial Territory" : mimeographed / paper by Bob Tanner

OEO

People Against Racism (PAR), mimeographed publications by the PAR concerning racial strife in Wilmington, Delaware 1969

Poor Peoples Campaign, publicity and publications

Poor Peoples Development Foundation

Posey, Buford, master's thesis rough draft on Estes Kefauver

Progressive Community Club, Abingdon, Virginia

Purchase Area Economic Opportunity Council Inc., includes summary report of the Forest Hills Study in Peducah, Kentucky

Rasmussen, Jean

Reece, Florence and Sam, tributes by Bill Murray, Pete Seeger, Studs Terkel, and others

Rogers, Walter and Elizabeth

Save Our Kentucky (SOK)

Soledad Brothers

Southern Appalachian Center, Antioch

Southern Committee Against Repression (SCAR), primarily materials dealing with the case of H. Rap Brown, and Knoxville College students who were accused of murdering a white cab driver 1968-1969

Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF)

Staff reports, 1970-1971

Publications

Southern Legal Action Movement (SLAM), 1969 May

Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC)

General, 1965-1969

Worklist mailings, information on the Southern Legal Action Movement (SLAM), the SSOC Peace Tour, the draft, university investments, the Mulloy/McSurley case, and the death of Martin Luther King Jr. 1967 May-1968 July

Publications, 1965-1969

Strip-mining

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), includes original draft of Jim Foreman's manuscript "Band of Brothers, Circle of Trust”

Tennessee Citizens for Wilderness Planning (TCWP), 1967

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), historical data, including early pamphlets and publications

TVA filmstrip mailing list

United Farm Workers

California, includes copies of letters to Cesar Chavez from Myles Horton and other materials

Florida

United Appalachian Communities

Virginia Assemblies

Vietnam and the draft

Vocations for Social Change (VSC)

War on Poverty

Welfare Rights Organization, Dickenson County 1972 September

WAMY Community Action Inc., Boone, North Carolina

Ward, Harry F.

Subseries: IV: Articles and Speeches, 1940-1978

Highlander Staff and Board

Branscome, Jim 1970-1971

Clark, Mike

“How Can You Buy or Sell the Sky?,” 1977 June 23

“Meeting the Needs of the Adult Learner,” 1978 June 28

“Poor People Develop Poor People's Power,” 1969 March 20

Text of a talk to VISTA Workers, description of leadership development and community action in Mineral Springs, Tennessee 1969 October

Cobb, Alice, Residential Workshops: The Case for Them 1961 March

Easterling, Edith, excerpts of a talk on Marrowbone Folk School at Highlander Community Teacher Conference 1970 April

Gaventa, John, "Which Side Are We On? Inequality and the Appalachian Studies Industry" / speech at the Appalachian Studies Conference 1978

Gomillion, Charles, Dr., "One Southerner to Another: An Interview with Myles Horton”

Horton, Aimee

An Analysis of Selected Programs for the Training of Civil Rights and Community Leaders in the South, 1965 June-1966 June

Crisis Education at Highlander

Highlander Center Serves the South, 1963 September

The Highlander Folk School: A History of the Development of Its Major Programs Related to Social Movements in the South, 1932-1961 / abstract of dissertation, University of Chicago 1970 December

“The Highlander Folk School: Pioneer of Integration in the South," reprinted from Teachers College Record, vol. 68, no. 3 1966 December

“Highlander Hated by Segregationists for Integrated Program," Knoxville Flashlight-Herald, vol. 32, no. 30 1963 September 7

“Negroes and Whites Integrated by Sea Islands," S.C. Music Festival, Knoxville Flashlight-Herald, vol. 32, no. 39 1963 November 9

Horton, Myles

“Alinsky in Retrospect," Seminar at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois 1978 March

Address to Baptist Student Center, University of Tennessee 1967 November 15

Economic Change in the Appalachian South, address to the Youth Commission, 55th Annual Conference of the Council of Southern Mountains 1967 April 12

“Highlander Center: The Roots of Southern Radicalism," number 6 in a series reprinted from The New South Student, vol. 5, no. 6. 1968 December

“The Place of Whites in the Civil Rights Movement" / lecture given at Amherst College Conference on the Negro: Assimilation in a Democratic Culture, 1967 April 27

“Study the Power Structure" / speech presented at Consultation on Appalachia-Rural Poverty in North America, sponsored by the Commission on Youth Service Projects, Berea, Kentucky 1968 February 26-29

Jones, Lewis W.

“Plowing the Crop Again: Keynote Address to National Sharecroppers Fund Conference on a Better Life for Farm Families,” 1962 November 14

“Problems and Special Needs of Negro Youth in Rural Areas" / prepared for the National Conference on Problems of Rural Youth in a Changing Environment, 1963

“The Social Unreadiness of Negro Youth" / article from Saturday Review, 1962 October 20

Lewis, Claudia and Helen 1940 and 1970

Articles about Highlander

Blake, Herman, excerpts from an Address on Highlander, Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz 1969 November 23

Coleman, James, excerpts from an Interview with Myles Horton on Organizing in Appalachia

Fisher, Steve, "Teaching Pride and Power in These Times,” 1979 April 25-May 1

Highlander Folk Architecture brochure

Lawson, Jane, Highlander Folk School

Liveright, H.A., "Here is Highlander," from Adult Leadership, vol. 5, no. 10 1957 April

Mac Lean, Kenneth

“It's a Miracle : I Still Don't Believe It, An Interview with Myles Horton," from Phi Delta Kappa, vol. 67, no. 9 1966 May

“Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School," from Phi Delta Kappa, vol. 67, no. 9 1966 May

Stevens, Alden, "Small Town America," reprint from The Nation 1946 June 29

Vescey, George, "Minority Center at 40 Looks to a New Era," from The New York Times 1972 August 29

Williams and Wright

Books about Highlander

Adams, Frank

Seeds of Fire : manuscript

Seeds of Fire : manuscript, includes working notes, several drafts, and final draft copy

Clippings and reviews

Bledsoe, Thomas

Or We'll All Hang Separately, including working folder, draft, and publisher's proofs

Subseries: V: Newsletters, 1937-1979

Appalachian Commonwealth, newsletter of the VPI and SU Appalachian Student Committee, Blacksburg, Virginia 1972

Appalachian Lookout, published by the Appalachian Volunteers Inc., Prestonsburg, Kentucky 1969

Appalachian Student Press, published by the Appalachian Student Press, Greeneville, Tennessee 1968-1970

As Is: U.S. National Student Association, Washington, D.C. 1968

The Atlanta Workshop in Nonviolence (AWIN), Atlanta, Georgia 1967-1970

The Black Panther, Black Panther Party, San Francisco, California 1968-1970

Broadside, New York Music Newsletter 1971

Citizens' Committee for Community Action (CCCA) Newsletter, Nora, Virginia 1968

Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA) Bulletin, New York 1963-1966

Delta Ministry, National Council of Churches, Greenville, Mississippi 1966-1971

Did You Know, Monroe Defense Committee, Monroe, North Carolina 1965-1972

Direct Action: Committee for Nonviolent Action (CNVA), Voluntown, Connecticut 1964-1973

El Papel, Chicano Newsletter, Albuquerque, New Mexico 1967-1970

Epistle, Virginia Assemblies, Petersburg, Virginia 1970

Fayette County Workcamp Newsletter, Cincinnati, Ohio 1963

Fayette-Haywood Newsletter: Fayette Haywood Workcamps, Cincinnati, Ohio 1967-1971

Firing Line: Community Union Organization, Uptown's Community Newspaper, Chicago, Illinois 1967-1968

Freedom Information Service: Mississippi Newsletter, Tougaloo, Mississippi 1978-1979

Hawkeye: Community Newsletter from Mud Creek, Kentucky 1969-1971

The Intercollegian and Far Horizons, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 1937-1938

Knoxville Flashlight Herald: The Oldest Negro Newspaper Printed in Knoxville, Tennessee 1937-1938

The Kudzu: Mississippi Student News Project, 1969

Johns Island and Wadmalaw Island Newsletter, Johns Island, South Carolina, includes Lowcountry Newsletter 1967-1968

Marrowbone News, Marrowbone Folk School, Lookout, Kentucky 1967

Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) Newsletter, Jackson and Sunflower, Mississippi 1965, 1967

Miner's Report, Cokeburg, Pennsylvania 1971-1973

MOVEMENT: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) of California, 1965-1968

The New African, 1971

New Left Notes: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Chicago, Illinois 1966-1969

New South, Southern Regional Council (SRC), Atlanta, Georgia 1965-1966

The New South Student, Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), Nashville, Tennessee 1964-1969

The New Virginia, Virginia Students Civil Rights Committee Newsletter, Victoria, Virginia 1965-1972

NKWANTABISA, returned Peace Corps Volunteers newsletter, International Order, Morgantown, West Virginia 1971

North Jackson Action, Official Bulletin of North Jackson Youth Council (NAACP), Jackson, Mississippi 1962-1963

NSMCC Newsletter, Northern Student Movement, New Haven, Connecticut 1962, 1964

OSAWATOMIE, Weather Underground Organization Newsletter 1975-1976

The Packinghouse Worker, official publication of the United Packinghouse, Food and Allied Workers AFL-CIO, Chicago, Illinois 1963-1965

Papel Chicano, Mexican-American Cultural Corporation, serving the Barrios of Houston, Texas 1972

Paperbag, underground Nashville

Peace Education Newsletter, American Friends Service Committee, High Point, North Carolina 1965, 1968

Peoples Appalachia: Critical Report, Peoples Appalachian Research Collection 1971

Peoples Rights and Benefits League, Nelsonville, Ohio, also includes The Ohio Hills Telegraphy and News Digest 1971

The Petal Papers, Petal, Mississippi 1969-1972

Pike County Citizens Association (PCCA), Hellier, Kentucky 1968-1970

The Phoenix, Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC), Nashville, Tennessee 1968-1969

Progress, Jackson County CID Program 1968-1969

Race Relations Reporter, Race Relations Information Center, Nashville, Tennessee 1970-1972

Raices, Chicano newsletter, Fresno, California 1970

La Raza, Chicano newsletter, El Barrio Communications Project, Los Angeles, California

Religion and Labor, bulletin of the Religion and Labor Council of America 1960, 1963-1964

Revolutionary Youth Movement, Chicago, Illinois

Rights of Man: A Working People's Newspaper, Southern Conference Educational Fund, New Orleans, Louisiana 1969

Road Runner, Jackson County or Jackson-Clay Road Runner, McKee, Kentucky 1970-1971

Rundown, Youth Commission, Council of Southern Mountains, Berea, Kentucky 1969

Sane World, newsletter of Action on Disarmament and the Peace Race, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), New York 1963-1966

Soul Force, Official Journal of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1968-1971

South Today, A Digest of Southern Affairs Leadership Project of the Southern Regional Council (SRC), Atlanta, Georgia 1971

The Southeastern Cooperator, Southeastern Cooperative Education Association, Carrollton, Georgia 1941-1943

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Newsletter, Atlanta, Georgia 1962-1964, 1966

Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) News, Louisville, Kentucky 1968-1969, 1973

Southern Coordinating Committee (SCC) Newsletter, to end the War in Vietnam, Atlanta, Georgia 1966

Southern Legal Action Movement (SLAM), New Orleans, Louisiana 1969-1971

Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) Iceberg!, Southside High School Underground Newspaper, Nashville, Tennessee 1969

Southwest Georgia Project News (SWGP), Southwest Georgia Project for Community Education Inc., Albany, Georgia 1970-1971

SNCC Monthly, Student National Coordinating Committee, New York

SNCC Newsletter, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Atlanta, Georgia 1967

The Student Voice, SNCC newsletter, Atlanta, Georgia 1962, 1965

Tennessee Council on Human Relations Newsletter, Progress in Desegregation, Nashville, Tennessee 1963-1964, 1970-1972

Tennessee Forum, opinion, Tennessee Valley, Pulaski, Tennessee 1967

Leaves of Twin Oaks, Twin Oaks Community, Virginia 1969-1973

Two-Three-Many, Committee of Returned Volunteers, Chicago, Illinois 1970

United Auto Worker CIO, Detroit, Michigan 1944

Virginia Weekly, Charlottesville, Virginia 1971

Voice of Jobs and Justice, Appalachian Committee for Full Employment, Hazard, Kentucky 1965

War Resistance, Journal of the War Resisters' International, London, England 1971, 1973

Washington Watch: A Private Newsletter, Business Executives move for Vietnam Peace and New National Priorities 1974-1975

Watch on the AEC, Citizen's Energy Council, National Committee to Stop Environmental Pollution, Washington, D.C. 1972

The Watchdog, Cas Walker's newsletter, Knoxville, Tennessee 1971-1973

Watauga-Avery-Mitchell-Yancey (WAMY) Community Action Report, Boone, North Carolina 1966-1968

Welfare Rights Now, National Welfare Rights Organization, Washington, D.C. 1969, 1972

Wildcat, Chicago, Illinois 1969

You Name It, Kentucky Welfare Rights Organization, Prestonsburg, Kentucky 1971-1972

Your Schools, South Carolina Community Relations Program, American Friends Service Committee, Columbia, South Carolina 1973, 1976-1977

The Youth Movement, Evarts, Kentucky, formerly Cloverfork Newsletter 1969

The Highlander Fling, 1933-1949

Highlander Newspaper

Highlander Reports, annual reports 1953-1969

Highlander Reports, annual reports 1970-1985

Subseries: VI: Publications, Pamphlets, and Printed Matter 1931-1978

Publications and pamphlets

Civil Liberties, 1949-1966

Civil Rights, 1931-1970

Civil Rights (continued), 1931-1970

Labor History, 1935-1965

Peace and Vietnam War, 1962-1971

Student Movement, 1965

Clippings and Reprints

Adult Education, 1935-1975

Appalachia, 1968-1978

Civil Rights, 1955-1973

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 1963-1974

Song Books

Ain't You Got a Right, by Highlander

Paint Creek Miner: Famous Labor Songs from Appalachia, by Charles Patterson

The Poverty War is Dead, by Michael Kline

Songs for Freedom, by Highlander

Songs: Labor, Folk, War, by Highlander

Song Sheets: The Blue Collar Blues and the White Collar Blahs, by The International

Sowing on the Mountain, by Highlander

YWCA Song Book

Series: HREC-0002 Myles Horton Papers, 1896-1986
Physical Description: 6.2 cubic feet (16 archives boxes and 1 flat box) and 1 audio recording. 
Scope and Content Note: The record group includes Myles Horton's personal papers regarding the Highlander Folk School (later the Highlander Research and Education Center). Some files pre-date Highlander's founding in 1932, while most documents the organization's administrative, educational, and activist activities. Subject files and articles also include additional information about topics within Highlander's programmatic areas. The group also includes correspondence, article and newspaper clipping, meeting minutes, personal notes, transcriptions of interviews, and academic papers. One box also contains books from Horton's personal collection.

Subseries: 1: Subject Files, 1915-1979

Adamic, Louis 1937 November 7

Addams, Jane 1955

Alinsky, Saul, in Retrospect 1978 May

Alinsky, Saul 1924

Appalachian Program, 1969-1976

Bellamy, Edward, Mrs. 1932 November

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 1954-1973

Chisholm, Malcolm 1932-1937

Citizenship Schools, Highlander Folk School 1961

Citizenship Schools, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 1962-1963

Clark, Septima, includes correspondence regarding the transferal of the Citizenship Schools to the SCLC 1961-1962,

Correspondence

Council of Southern Mountains (CSM), 1967-1969

Creeds, Rituals, and Readings

Easterling, Edith, transcription of talk about Marrowbone Folk School 1970 April

Educational Notes

Notes on Conflict

The Meaning of Revolution

Mississippi Integration

Small Groups

Community Development for Health and Welfare

Educational Leadership and Communities

Leadership in Community

Community, Rural and Urban

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Highlander Folk School, 1941

Myles Horton, 1943-1954

Folk Schools, 1955

Freeman, Pamela 1979

Freire, Paulo 1970-1979

Flye, James, Father 1962 September 4

Garland, Jim 1932-1978

Gelders, Joe

Greene, Maxine 1971

Griffin, Governor Marvin, attack on Highlander 1957

Grundy County, 1976

Harlan County Mine Wars, 1939

Hays, Lee, includes letters to and from Zilphia Horton 1937

Highlander Folk School

Educational Theory, 1933

Funding Letters, 1932

Role in the South, report on a meeting following the unrest in Clinton, Tennessee, in the wake of school desegregation 1957

Students, 1934-1944

Highlander Research and Education Center Board of Directors, 1964-1969

Hillery, Mable 1965

Horton, Aimee, correspondence

Horton, Myles

Notes on Highlander Folk School, includes notes on Horton's growing concept of a southern mountain school 1927-1933

Resignation as President of Highlander, 1970 April-1973 February

Resume and Autobiographical Notes

Horton, Zilphia 1941

Huberman, Leo 1968 December

Illich, Ivan

Interviews

Cobb, Alice: Interview with Myles Horton 1970 Spring

Coleman, James: Interview with Myles Horton 1968 February

Diehl, Rich: Interview with Myles Horton 1968 March

Easlie, Hassie: Interview with Myles Horton 1967 May

Kennedy, William: Interview with Myles Horton 1976 April

Kohl, Herb: Interview with Myles Horton circa 1979

Kools, Louis: Interview with Myles Horton

Merrow, John: "Options in Education,” 1976 November

Olson, Bill (Ryegrass School): Interview with Myles Horton 1977 September

Sheats, Paul (KPFA): Interview with Myles Horton 1964

Sweet, Ben: Interview with Myles Horton 1965

Thomas, Trevor: Interview with Myles Horton

Johnson, Lillian

Jordan, Clarence 1979

Kester, Howard, includes references to the strike at Wilder, Tennessee 1933

Labor

Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Correspondence, 1949-1950

Officers, 1955 January

Drama

Extension Program

Labor History Teaching Materials

Textile Workers Organizing Committee (TWOC), 1937 August 28- 1937 October 9

Workers Education, includes materials from the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the American Federation of Teachers, and the Works Progress Administration

Literacy

Long, Huey

Louisiana Un-American Activities Committee (LUAC), hearings regarding investigation of the Southern Conference Education Fund 1963 November 19-1965 January 19

Ludwig, Tom 1966

Meiklejohn, Alexander 1965

Melungeons

Ministry Award

Mountain Elders
Note: Includes correspondence regarding formation and materials on Gray Panthers.

Mountain Workers Conference, 1937

Niebuhr, Reinhold 1932 May 11-19

The Nit-Wit, four issues of weekly broadside published by the Young Socialist League of Monteagle, Tennessee 1933 November

O'Connell, Neill: Religious Origins of Highlander 1978 May

Organizing the Rural Poor, by Paul Wellstone 1978

Parks, Rosa, includes transcript of talk between Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, and E.D. Nixon with Studs Terkel, Rosa Parks' report on the Montgomery bus boycott, and transcript of a speech by Parks 1956-1973

Race Relations Institute, Fisk University 1944-1965

Rugby Colony, articles and clippings about utopian colony on the Cumberland Plateau 1930

Sermon Material

Sharecroppers Union, includes copies of Southern Voice 1935

Senate Internal Security Subcommittee

Eastland Hearings on the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), 1954-1957

Eastland Committee on Subversive Influence in the Educational Process, testimony of Mary Knowles 1955 September 15

Singleton, Florence, transcript of a talk by John's Island sophomore after returning from a desegregation workshop at Highlander circa 1960

Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU)

Sharecropping Information, 1935-1965

Correspondence, press releases, and convention memoranda

Minutes and reports

The Sharecroppers Voice and The Tenant Farmer, 1935-1942

Articles, 1935-1936

Speeches by Myles Horton, 1967-1976

Stockton, Joe Kelly and Kate Bradford

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), includes Freedom Schools materials and role playing guide 1960-1969

Supreme Court, Brown v. Board of Education 1954 May 17

Taylor, Alva

Thompson, John B., November, copy of address from John F. Kennedy memorial service 1963

Urban-Rural Conflict

Utopian Communities

Voter Registration Program

West, Don

Wilder Miners' Strike

Williams, Hosea

Women's Suffrage Movement, 1915 August

Workshops

Leadership, 1954

Booklet of Materials Prepared, 1958

Civil Rights, 1960 March

Experimental workshop, 1961 February

SNCC Workshop, 1962 June

South Carolina Workshop, circa 1960-1965

Appalachia, 1964 March

White Community Project Workshop, Gulfport, Mississippi 1964 July

Marrowbone Folk School, 1968 July

Appalachia, 1968 October

Montgomery Belle Park (CAP), 1969 March

Multi-racial Poor, 1970 April

Social Movements, 1971 April

Writings by Myles Horton

Labor Unions, 1931 March

The Community Folk School, reprint of 1938 original 1976 November

Mountain Men, 1940

Camp Forrest, Tullahoma, Tennessee 1941

Workers Education, circa 1950-1959

Selma Freedom March, 1965

Morris Mitchell and Myles Horton

Decision Making Process, circa 1965-1969

Highlander Center, 1968 December

Education (Reflections on Freire)

A People's Movement to Liberate Education, 1972 Fall

Rural Social Work Practice, 1977 December

Stack, Joseph, autobiographical manuscript from one of the founders of the National Maritime Union

Subseries: 2: Articles and Clippings, 1896-1977

Articles, 1923-1970

Civil Rights, 1967-1978

Education, 1972

Mountain culture and history, 1896-1976

Tennessee history, 1939-1977

Subseries: 3: Books, 1932-1958

Alsberg, Henry G., America Fights the Depression: A Photographic Record of the Civil Works Administration 1934

Dombrowski, James, The Early Days of Christian Socialism in America 1936

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Labor Unionism in American Agriculture 1945

U.S. Senate, Conditions in Coal Fields in Harlan and Bell Counties, Kentucky 1932 May 11-19

Subseries: 4A: Writings by Myles Horton (additions of December 2010), 1933-1978 and undated

Studs Terkel interviews Myles Horton, 1978 March 19

People, Poverty, Politics, by Myles Horton 1970 October 8

Myles Horton: Building a Social Movement, 1966 September 30

Social Change: U.T. seminar, Myles Horton 1970 October 13

Organizers: Myles Horton interview, by James Coleman 1968 February

Myles Horton: Education and Highlander, Conference on Schools 1977 June

Myles Horton at the Unitarian Fellowship in Memphis, 1970 September 13

Morris Mitchell, Myles Horton: Education and Highlander

China education, interviewed by Myles Horton circa 1977

Senator Huey Long interviewed by Myles Horton, 1934 September 9

Democratic involvement in decision making and action, 1976 October 13

The Durable Mr. Horton, interview by Trevor Thomas 1964

Myles Horton, Dan Powell: Unitarian Fellowship in Memphis 1971 November 14

Myles Horton's talk with Friends World Institute, 1968 April 8

Myles Horton, Rick Diehl conversation, Highlander 1968 March

Interview with Myles Horton, Bergen, the Netherlands 1971 April 4

Workers education, adult education, by Myles Horton 1930s

Autobiographical notes for Paula Snelling, The South Today, Clayton, Georgia 1935

Myles Horton interviewed by Bill, 1977 September 29

The Religious Origins and Support of Highlander Folk School, Southern Labor History Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 1978 May 5

Myles Horton interviewed by Alice Cobb, 1970 Spring

Myles Horton, Berea, Kentucky 1970 March 5

Why Don't Reforms Reform, Myles Horton, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 1969 December 15

Ben Sweet interviews Myles Horton, KPFK Los Angeles circa 1961- 1971

Mutual education, educational theory 1933

Study the Power Structure, by Myles Horton 1968 February 26-29

Highlander history and policies: Myles Horton, Unitarian Fellowship of Memphis 1969 February 2

Labor history, Grundy County, Tenn.: Mountain Men, by Myles Horton 1940

Highlander: Myles Horton, Baptist Student Center 1967 November 15

Civil Rights: Rosa Parks, Myles Horton, E.D. Nixon talk to Studs Terkel 1973 June 8

Audio recording

Council of Southern Mountains 55th Annual Conference, 1967 April 12

Civil Rights: New York interview with Donald Stephen, Hassie Easlie, Ethel Clyde, Harry Davidson, and Myles Horton 1967 May

Civil Rights: Myles Horton, by Paul Sheats 1964

Highlander: Myles Horton interview, Dr. William Kennedy 1976 April 3

Highlander: Myles Horton, by Aimee Horton 1966 November

Frank Adams interviews Myles Horton, circa 1970

Highlander history interviews with Myles Horton, 1977

Aims and methods, circa 1940

Subseries: 4B: Writings by Others (additions of December 2010), 1937-1979 and undated

Rosa Parks speech, Chicago, Illinois circa 1960s

Rosa Parks: Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott report, Highlander, Monteagle, Tennessee 1956 March 3-4

Rosa Parks on Montgomery, Alabama passive resistance protest 1956 March 3-4

Florence Singleton, Highlander Folk School, John's Island 1955

Marrowbone Folk School, Edith Easterling 1970 April

Organizers: Paull Wellstone

Highlander, by Mabel Hillery 1965 May 27

Leslie Dunbar speeches, 1978

Other people's writings: notes and quotes, 1945-1970

Poetry: Make Love, Not War 1963-1965

Poetry (various authors), 1962-1972

Article and correspondence, 1937-1939

Justice for America's Rural Poor, circa 1966

Aimee Horton writings, 1965-1966

Terry Marcelle senior project, 1979 December 7

Subseries: 5: News Clippings and Printed Materials (addition of December 2010), 1929-1986

News clippings, 1939

The American Mercury, 1932 September

Journal of Educational Sociology: Labor education issue, 1952 February

Joint Legislative Committee on Un-American Activities: SCEF in Louisiana, 1964 April 13

Printed materials and articles, 1929-1970

Your Local Has a Part In This War, 1942 June-October

Printed material, 1962-1964

Brook, David 1970

How To Write for Your Union Paper, 1943

Early Georgia, 1950 Fall

News clippings, 1963-1981

Organizing and poor whites, SSOC publications circa 1966

Options in Education, Program 54: Highlander 1976 November 22

John Egerton: Highlander Southern exposure, circa 1977

News clippings following release of Appalachian Land Ownership Study, 1981

Alaska's Native People, gifted to Horton from friends in Bethel, Alaska, includes personal notes, letters, and articles within front cover 1986

Commonwealth College Fortnightly, 1934 February 15

Packet of publications by and about Highlander, 1946-1964

Articles about Highlander, 1940-1978

The Tennessee Adult Educator, 1977 Fall

Subseries: 6: Highlander Center (additions of December 2010), 1932-1980 and undated

Workshops, Programs, and Events 1948-1980

Leadership, by Workshop Committee, Highlander Folk School 1954

SNCC Workshop on Voter Education, Highlander 1962

Materials on a Highlander Workshop, Monteagle, Tennessee 1958

Social Movement Workshop, Highlander Center 1971 April 26-28

On Building a Social Movement Workshop, 1968 July 25

Appalachian Workshop, 1964 March 12-14

Appalachian Community Leadership Workshop, 1968 October 26-27

Appalachian Community Workshop planning, circa 1968

Experimental Workshop, 1961 February 19-21

Oscar Guermonprez on folk schools at Highlander, 1955

Voter education, Highlander Educational Center 1962

Brazilian workers, Highlander, workers opposition 1978 March 12

Appalachian staff meeting, 1969 April 18

NYC: Guyer party, 1978

Map of McCreary County, Kentucky

Freedom Workshop News, Highlander events 1965-1969

Appalachian health program agenda, 1976 October 7

Tribute to Septima Clark and Rosa Parks, 1980 May 1

Harry Lasker Memorial Library dedication, 1948 November 17

Mountain Community Education Program (MCEP) evaluation, 1975 September 15

Citizenship Schools, 1959-1962

Highlander Publications, 1938-1977

Highlander Folk School alumni publications, 1938-1941

Sing Out, Brother songbook circa 1946-1950

Highlander Folk School Review, 1938

Highlander publications, circa 1965-1977

Legal Materials, 1957-1968

Highlander's protest against revocation of tax-exempt status, 1957

Highlander Folk School v. State of Tennessee: Petition for a writ of certiorari, 1961 October

Highlander Folk School, Horton, Justus, and Clark v. State of Tennessee 1959

Highlander North-South Workcamp Trial Transcript, 1963 June 24

Liveright et al. v. State of Tennessee, 1968 January 11

Other Highlander Materials, 1932-1976

Program proposal, Appalachian Self-Education Program, Highlander Center circa 1970

Highlander Fund letter, 1932 May 27

Highlander's Role in the South, Monteagle, Tennessee 1957 February 12

Highlander Folk School: Attack of Grundy County Crusaders, 1940 December 9

Highlander chartering, circa 1961

Staff meeting, 1975 April 22

Advisory and Executive meeting, Highlander 1956 March 3-4

Highlander Board of Directors, 1965 May 14

Board of Directors: Highlander's programs, 1968 Spring

Highlander Board, 1960s

Alice Cobb's statement to Highlander Board

Appalachian program, 1976 February 10

Board meeting, Highlander Center 1965

The Ant and the Grasshopper script, by John P. Fort, includes watercolors of set ideas

Play scripts, circa 1940s

Highlander by-laws, 1961-1969

Highlander Target administrative proposal, 1971

Septima Clark to-do list

Duplicates, circa 1975

Highlander meeting minutes and staff reports, 1956-1970

Highlander informational packet, 1946-1962

Subseries: 7: Conferences, Reports, and Events (addition of December 2010) 1954-1978, and undated

Marrowbone Folk School workshop, Edith Easterling 1968 July 25

South Carolina voter workshop, circa 1961-1963

Supreme Court decision, 1954 May 17

Crossroads Africa, 1978 May 14

Southeast Georgia Voters League Citizenship School program, 1962

Newsletters, other organizations 1964

Moving Star Hall, Xmas Watch Night, Johns Island, South Carolina circa 1962

Mountain Peoples Music Fair, High Knob, Virginia 1971 September 10-12

Conference on Appalachian Struggles for Self Government, 1972 March 3-5

The Cherokee Report, 1969 August

Statement of the Working Committee of the Mountain Institute, 1968

Subseries: 8: Personal (addition of December 2010), 1930-1986

Council of Southern Mountains, Myles Horton notes

Nightingale, Abram, correspondence 1930

Horton, Thorsten, correspondence 1963

Correspondence, 1930

Rothko Chapel Award

Correspondence, schedule, news clippings 1986

Program, acceptance speech, press, etc. 1986 December

Carter-Menil Human Rights Prize, 1986 December

Texas, 1986

Loose papers, 1941-1969

Williams, Aubrey, Atlanta Constitution 1962

Series: HREC-0003 Mike Clark Papers, 1953-1976
Physical Description: 0.8 cubic feet (2 archives boxes). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group contains a portion of the papers of Highlander Center educator and activist Michael "Mike" Clark. Clark joined the staff of Highlander in 1968 and eventually served as president of the Center from 1972 to 1981. Included are correspondence, newspaper clippings, program materials, meeting minutes, notes, presentation materials, and reports.

Subseries: I: Correspondence, 1967-1976

Appalachian Program Letters

Correspondence, general

Correspondence, inter-office, memorandums, letters

Subseries: II: Subject Files, 1953-1972

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

American Heritage

Brown, Siler

Citizenship Schools

Appalachian Committee for Full Employment

Appalachian Pilot Project

Appalachian Self-Education Program (ASEP)

Clippings, miscellaneous

Council of the Southern Mountains: Commission on Natural Resources

Council of the Southern Mountains (CSM)

Community Film Workshop Marrowbone Folk School

Concerned Citizens of Berea

Community Leadership Workshop, 1969 February 14-16

Fager, Chuck

Field Foundation

Field Reports (Clark)

Lamblin, Dan: Involvement Education

Mingo County Poverty Tour

March for Survival

National Commission on Hunger and Malnutrition

Notes on Program and Education

Selective Service

Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF)

Strip Mining

Appalachian Group to Save the Land and People

Articles and writings (Clark)

Clippings

Martin v. Kentucky Oak Mining Co., et al.

Research material

Slide show

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

West, Don

University of North Carolina

Series: HREC-0004 Emil Willimetz Papers, 1940-1983
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group primarily contains materials related to Emil Willimetz's work in the labor movement, with a focus on Tennessee and the southeastern United States. Formats include flyers, organizing pamphlets, correspondence, news clippings, and petitions. One folder also includes some personal information about Willimetz, including a transcript from Black Mountain College.

Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (ACWA), organizing leaflet and information on minimum wage 1941 September

CIO Organizers, Harriman, Tennessee, clippings and releases about an incident in which two CIO organizers were beaten and covered with tar 1941 September

Furniture Workers, C.B. Atkin Company 1941 June-October

Grundy County Crusaders, report of attack on Highlander 1940 December

Hosiery Workers, Magnet Mills, Clinton, Tennessee 1941

Progressive Labor, three issues of independent newspaper published in Knoxville, Tennessee 1941 September-October

Personal, includes transcript from Black Mountain College, proposals, and reports and black and white photograph of Willimetz 1940-1983

Willimetz, Joie, illustrated letter to friends about establishment of Highlander Nursery School, articles about community cooperative day care 1949 March-1951 September

Series: HREC-0005 Olive Stone Papers, 1930-1977
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group pertains to southern sociologist Olive Stone's research and writing. It also includes a seven-part interview with Stone, a supporter Myles Horton and the Highlander Center. Included are interview transcripts, research materials, correspondence, reports, and newspaper clippings.

Autobiography: Interview

Part I, 1975 March 6

Part II, 1975

Part III, 1975 June 27

Part IV, 1975 August 13

Part V, 1975 September 10

Part VI, 1975 October 14

Part VII, 1975 November 4

Gee's Bend, Alabama Study 1962

Personal, 1933-1977

Professional papers, includes seven papers on various topics 1953-1969

Published articles, includes five articles 1950-1968

Sharecroppers Union, Alabama 1930-1966

Series: HREC-0006 Beth Bingman Papers, 1969-1975
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box). 
Scope and Content Note: The record group relates to Beth Bingman's activist interests in the late-1960s and early-1970s, including feminism, the Vietnam War, and Appalachian issues. Included are numerous pamphlets, newspapers, news clippings, essays, and articles.

Council of Southern Mountains, 1973-1974

Education: People Against Racism in Education (PARE), 1975

Off Our Backs, 1970-1972

Strip-mining, 1972 January

Women's Liberation, materials on Feminist Socialism, birth control, international women's rights, and other issues, as well as multiple publications from New England Free Press and other alternative presses 1970-1975

Vietnam War, clippings 1969

Series: HREC-0007 Rich Kirby Papers, 1967-1969
Physical Description: 0.4 cubic feet (1 archives box). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group primarily relates to Rich Kirby's research into coal mining, especially in eastern Kentucky, and his authorship of The Curse of Coal. Included are research materials, materials from various anti-coal mining groups, and drafts of papers from 1967 to 1969.

The Curse of Coal: Policy Issues of Strip-mining in Eastern Kentucky, draft (3 copies) 1967 August 16

Kentucky Coal: Owners, Taxes, and Profits 1969 March

Research Materials, 1967-1969
Note: Background information on East Kentucky counties, companies, and tax base.

Save Our Kentucky, et al.

Series: HREC-0008 Helen Lewis Papers, 1969-1974
Physical Description: 0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group primarily relates to Helen Lewis' interest in and activism surrounding strip mining and surface mining in Appalachia. Materials include news clippings, research notes, meeting minutes, pamphlets and other publications, correspondence, interviews, and testimonies.

“The Beer Drinkers," paper by Clinch Valley College students

Conservation Council of Virginia Inc., 1972

Hazard, Kentucky, Mart Shepherd circa 1970

Hearing, Wise, Virginia 1974 March 14

Interview Questionnaire: Effects on Families from Strip Mining

List of Operators, 1972 October

Minutes of Coordination meeting, 1970 October 3

Minutes of meeting, Strip Mine Research, Field Foundation 1972 December 14

Operation Coal, 1974 February

Strip Mining Pamphlet and Related Correspondence, 1972

Pike County Citizens Organization, Lexington, Kentucky 1970-1971

Reports of Clinch Valley College Students, 1970

Statement of the Office of Appalachian Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of Wheeling, West Virginia 1972 May 5

“Strip Mining and Reclamation," Jane Bolling 1969 September 30

Taxes, Wise County 1970

Testimony, Donald W. Whitehead, Appalachian Regional Commission 1972 February 24

Virginia Surface Mining and Reclamation Association Inc., circa 1970

Wise County Environmental Council, 1971-1972

Series: HREC-0009 Highlander Center Photograph Collection, 1918-1991
Physical Description: 5.0 cubic feet of photographs (13 archives boxes). 
Scope and Content Note: This record group depicts the work of the Highlander Center, including workshops, strikes, and meetings. It also includes photographs of Highlander staff members and friends, and of Highlander buildings and grounds, both at the original Monteagle location, and at the current New Market site. The bulk of the photographs in this group date from the time of Highlander's founding in 1932 up to 1991, though also included are some earlier family photographs.

Subseries: I: People, 1918-1991

Adams, Frank 1971

Austin, Aileen 1955

Baker, Ella circa 1958-1960

Barry, Marion, Jr. undated

Bennett, Paul 1940s-1953

Bond, Julian undated

Braden, Carl and Ann 1960

Brazeal, B. R. 1964

Buttrick, Bill circa 1939-1940

Cadle, Mary Elizabeth Barnicle circa 1978

Carawan, Guy and Candie 1950s-1980s

Chisom, Mae undated

Christopher, Paul circa 1950s