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Audio 807A
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Series: Audio Recordings
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Mss 265
Box
110
Folder
7
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Content notes on tapes; compiled by researcher John Glen
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Adult Education Association - Residential Adult Education
Section
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Audio
807A/1
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Proceedings of business meeting, 1960 October 16 : Chaired by Myles Horton; primarily concerning plans for future conferences.
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Attacks and investigations
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Audio
807A/2
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Myles Horton reports informally to Highlander staff on the Eastland
hearings, 1954 March : Discusses his testimony and that of Paul Crouch, Jim Dombrowski, Aubrey Williams,
and Virginia Durr. : See content notes in Box 110 (Part 2).
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Publicity
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Audio
807A/3
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Radio program, “Alma John and the Homemakers' Club,” 1956 May 8 : 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.
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Sea Islands
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Audio
807A/4
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Septima Clark, 1955? : 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.
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Audio
807A/5
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Interviews, circa 1955 : 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."
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Audio
807A/6
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Report by Septima Clark and Bernice Robinson?, 1956 February 6 : Report of a workshop at Johns Island which concerned cooperatives, voting and
registration, and housing.
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Audio
807A/7
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Septima Clark introduces Johns Island students, circa 1957 : 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.
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Audio
807A/8
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Unidentified meeting
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Audio
807A/8 (continued)
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Meeting on St. Helena's Island, 1958 May 5 : 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.
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Audio
807A/9
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Meeting on Edisto Island, 1958 circa June 10 : Meeting of an Edisto Island local club with Solomon Brown presiding and Esau
Jenkins speaking.
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Audio
807A/9 (continued)
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Meeting on Johns Island : Beginning of a meeting the next night of the club on Johns Island.
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Audio
807A/10
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Meetings of Local Clubs, 1958 July : 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.
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Audio
807A/11
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Charleston Heights workshop on Voting and Registration, 1958 September 22 : Organized by Mrs. Mary Lee Davis, featuring talks by Septima Clark, Esau Jenkins,
and others.
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Audio
807A/12
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Report by Septima Clark, circa 1959 March : 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. : See content notes in Box 110 (Part 2).
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Audio
807A/13
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Palmetto Voters Association Annual Meeting, Johns Island 1959 : Includes speeches by Esau Jenkins, Reverend Glover, and attorney John H.
Wright.
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Workshops
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Audio
807A/14
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United Nations workshop group discussion, 1954 August 7 : Led by Myles Horton and concerning leadership development.
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Audio
807A/15
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25th Anniversary workshop, 1957 September 2 : 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.
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