Highlander Research and Education Center Records, 1917-2017

 
Contents List
 + Part 14 (M2019-039; Audio 515A/245): Additions: Highlander Education and Research Center Archives, 1931-1997
Container Title
Highlander investigation
Box   2
  Item   71
May Justus testifying when Highlander was being investigated
Note: Justus was Secretary-Treasurer of Highlander, next door neighbor and author of some 40 children's books based on mountain background.
Box   2
  Item   72
Vera Campbell testifying during the Highlander investigation
Note: Campbell was a former teacher in Grundy County, who came to the mountains with May Justus before Highlander Folk School was started in 1932.
Box   2
  Item   73
Myles Horton testifying during a hearing for the Highlander investigation
Box   2
  Item   74
State investigation of the Highlander Folk School with Bruce Bennett and Henry Lee Senter
Note: At left, Bruce Bennett, who was instrumental in getting the legislature to approve the investigation, extreme right, State Representative, Henry Lee Senter from Bristol, Tennessee. Bruce Bennett, attorney general of the State of Arkansas and one of the top white supremacists at that time.
Box   2
  Item   75
Investigator
Box   2
  Item   76
Investigators
Box   2
  Item   77
Bruce Bennett
Box   2
  Item   78
Henry Lee Senter and Representative McCord
Box   2
  Item   79
Legislative investigators with Henry Lee Senter, third from left
Box   2
  Item   80
Henry Lee Senter
Box   2
  Item   81
Mr. Kilgore, Postmaster from Tracy City, Tennessee, testifying at the hearing
Box   2
  Item   82
Audience at hearing
Box   2
  Item   83
Investigators
Box   2
  Item   84
Bruce Bennett explaining a chart he had drawn
Note: The chart shows Highlander as a center for what Bennett considered subversive individuals and groups in the South.
Box   2
  Item   85
Investigating committee
Box   2
  Item   86
Audience at investigation
Box   2
  Item   87
Henry Lee Senter and Representative McCord
Note: Duplicate of photo number 78.
Box   2
  Item   88-89
Investigating committee
Box   2
  Item   90
Henry Lee Senter
Box   2
  Item   91
Investigating committee