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