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Highlander and Citizenship Schools: Correspondence, 1957-1988

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 1

Scope and Contents note

Includes letter from Highlander founder, Myles Horton, congratulating Robinson on being an excellent teacher at the Johns Island Adult School; letter from Robinson to Horton commenting on the tenuous status of the School; letter from staff member, Anne Lockwood offering Robinson a position with Robinson's reply; letter from Horton to Leslie Dunbar, executive director of the Field Foundation, requesting funding to collect oral histories from civil rights movement participants, which Robinson and Septima Clark would gather; letter from Horton congratulating Robinson regarding her campaign for the South Carolina State House of Representatives, with references to the historic value of the Highlander tapes; letter and photocopied newspaper clippings regarding attacks against the Center for its efforts to close the Bumpass Cove Sanitary Landfill, Tennennesse.

Dates

  • Creation: 1954-1988

Access Restrictions

No restrictions.

Extent

From the Collection: 6.75 linear feet (15 archival boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture Repository

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