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Box 3

 Container

Contains 20 Results:

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...
Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Highlander's The United Nations and You workshop roster, 1955

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 2
Collection Overview From the Collection: Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials, photographic materials, and audio recordings document Bernice V. Robinson's role (late 1950s-1980s) as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development, with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview, detailing her life and family; race relations in...
Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Photographs, circa 1960s

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note

Robinson teaching at a voter education workshop; photocopy of itinerary regarding schedule of citizenship training workshops.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Highlander Reports Newsletters, 1961-1988

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note

Also includes brochures regarding the Center and their fiftieth anniversary campaign.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Highlander Folk School Audio Tape Collection finding aid, 1964 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note

From Tennessee State Library and Archives; with essay regarding participants on recordings

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Esau Jenkins and the Sea Island Progressive Club Center: Biographical sketch, itineraries, booklet, correspondence, and newspaper clipping, 1964-1972

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note

Includes letter with proposal from Jenkins requesting a grant for a day care program from the Department of Labor; letter from American Friends Service Committee regarding Southern School Desegregation work with employment opportunity for Robinson; and Jenkins' obituary.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Center expenses and income report, 1966-1967

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 7
Collection Overview From the Collection: Correspondence, minutes, financial documents, literary productions, printed materials, photographic materials, and audio recordings document Bernice V. Robinson's role (late 1950s-1980s) as a teacher and social activist for voter education, adult literacy, and child development, with other materials (1960s-1980s) relating to her personal, religious, and social work. Biographical papers include transcripts of her oral history interview, detailing her life and family; race relations in...
Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Typescripts, 1979 and undated

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents note

Regarding Robinson's experiences and influence on the creation of the Citizenship Program in South Carolina; and typed transcription of her talk regarding Citizenship Training Schools.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Typescripts and published essays, 1966-1987

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note

Regarding Highlander Center and citizenship education by Aimee Horton; with letter to Robinson regarding the possibility of jointly writing an article on literacy education.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center

Lee Davis typescript, 1986

 File — Box: 3, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents note

Regarding Johns Island's Citizenship School with quotes from Robinson, Brazilian educator Paulo Freire, Septima Clark, and Esau Jenkins.

Dates: 1954-1988
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Bernice Robinson papers / 4. Affiliations / 4.2 The Highlander Folk School and Research Center
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