Martin Luther King Broadside
This collection consists of a single broadside printed from a page of The Augusta Courier dated July 8, 1963. It includes a picture of Martin Luther King along with Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams, and Myles Horton among a crowd at Highlander Folk School in 1957. This propagandist broadside advertises Highlander as a "communist training school" and describes the men as "'four horsemen' of racial agitation."
Dates
- 1963 July 8
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Overview
This collection consists of a single broadside printed from a page of The Augusta Courier dated July 8, 1963. It includes a picture of Martin Luther King along with Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams, and Myles Horton among a crowd at Highlander Folk School in 1957. This propagandist broadside advertises Highlander as a "communist training school" and describes the men as "'four horsemen' of racial agitation."
Biographical / Historical
In 1932, Myles Horton established the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The school initially focused on labor and adult education, but by the early 1950s it shifted its attention to race relations. It held integrated meetings as well as served as a site of leadership training for southern Civil Rights activists. On September 2, 1957, Martin Luther King went to a leadership training conference at Highlander Folk School to celebrate its 25-year anniversary.
Arrangement
This collection is in one folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository