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