- Collection:
- "Integrated in All Respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School Films and the Politics of Segregation
- Title:
- Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School film, 1957: Part 1
- Creator:
- Friend, Ed, 1912-1991
- Date of Original:
- 1957-08-30/1957-09-01
- Subject:
- Activists--Tennessee--Monteagle
Adult education--Tennessee--Monteagle
African American civil rights workers--Tennessee--Monteagle
African American clergy--Tennessee--Monteagle
African American men--Tennessee--Monteagle
African American women--Tennessee--Monteagle
African Americans--Politics and government
Audiences--Tennessee--Monteagle
Automobiles--Tennessee--Monteagle
Bicycles---Tennessee--Monteagle
Blue collar workers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Camera operators--Tennessee--Monteagle
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Monteagle
Civil rights workers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Clergy--Tennessee--Monteagle
Communism--Tennessee--Monteagle
Dance---Tennessee--Monteagle
Educators--Tennessee--Monteagle
Labor leaders--Tennessee--Monteagle
Labor unions
Lakes--Tennessee--Monteagle
Libraries--Tennessee--Monteagle
Newspaper editors--Tennessee--Monteagle
Photographers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Photographs
Race relations
Social integration--Tennessee--Monteagle
Social movements--Tennessee--Monteagle
Social reformers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Swimming---Tennessee--Monteagle
Youth--Tennessee--Monteagle
Monteagle (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--Employees
Georgia Commission on Education
Southern Farm and Home (Magazine)--Employees
Tuskegee Institute--Employees
United Packing House Workers of America--Employees
Men, White--Tennessee--Monteagle
Women, White--Tennessee--Monteagle
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)--Anniversaries, etc.
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Daily worker (Harlem, N.Y.)
Findlay Street Neighborhood House (Cincinnati, Ohio)--Employees - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Harris, Roy Vincent, 1895-1985
Horton, Myles, 1905-1990
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965
Friend, Ed, 1912-1991
Gomillion, Charles G. (Charles Goode), 1900-1995
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Berry, Abner W., 1902-1987
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014
Schneiderman, Harry
Helstein, Ralph
Walden, A. T. (Austin Thomas), 1885-1965
McCrackin, Maurice, 1905-1997 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Tennessee, Grundy County, 35.38837, -85.72258
United States, Tennessee, Marion County, Monteagle, 35.24008, -85.8397 - Medium:
- unedited footage
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- In this silent film taken by Ed Friend for the Georgia Commission on Education at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee in September 1957, groups of white and African American men and women leave the Highlander Folk School library; an interracial group swims in a pond; and still photos show more integration at the school's twenty-fifth anniversary celebration. The film is in two parts; the first section, shot in color, shows the swimmers and the library and the second section shows black-and-white still photos taken by Friend.
The clip begins with white and African American men and women leaving the Highlander Folk School library. Some of the women wear skirts and dresses while others wear shorts; many of the men wear short-sleeve dress shirts. Among those identified in the clip is Aubrey Williams, a white man in a bow tie, who waves as he leaves the library. Williams had been the director of the National Youth Administration under President Franklin D. Roosevelt and at the time of the Highlander anniversary, was publisher of the Southern Farm and Home magazine. Charles Gomillion, dean of the African American Tuskegee Institute, also exits the library. Gomillion was influential in African American voter registration in addition to being president of the Tuskegee Civil Association. Later, Rosa Parks and Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Reverend Ralph D. Abernathy walk out of the library together. The three from Montgomery, Alabama pause at the door and also pose with folk singer Pete Seeger and Charis Horton, daughter of Myles Horton. An African American man leaves with two white women and puts his hand on one of the women's arms. At one point a woman in a pink dress approaches the bicycle parked beside the library and wheels it away. An African American man, possibly Abner W. Berry, editor of the Harlem edition of the communist Daily Worker, uses paper to shield his eyes from the sunlight as he leaves the library. A white man, who appears to hold food and drink and is followed by a child, walks beyond the library. The section ends with a view of the library building. Next an interracial group swims in the pond. Several children splash in the water; many of the girls wear swimming caps. On the shore an African American man and a white woman walk towards the water from a bench. A platform anchored in the pond provides a resting place for another interracial group. Part one of the clip ends by again focusing on people entering and exiting the library. Several people stand near a station wagon with the slogan "Findlay Street Neighborhood House, Cincinnati, Ohio" painted on the side. Among those near the library is a pregnant woman who leaves the library with a man and another man who stands near the doorway with a clipboard. Several African American women in Sunday dress leave the library; others are seen wearing name tags. Rev. Maurice McCrackin, a pacifist minister and activist from Cincinnati, precedes a man with a camera who leaves the building.
Myles Horton and Don West began the Highlander Folk School in 1932 as an adult education center to teach the principles of self-organization and governance. During the 1930s and through the first part of the 1950s, the school focused on helping labor unions organize; about the time of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the school's focus turned toward civil rights and integration. The school developed programs to teach literacy and help citizens prepare to register to vote through its citizenship schools. It was influential in training volunteers for the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi. Long accused of communist connections, Highlander was shut down by the Tennessee state government in 1961. The school then moved to its current location in Knoxville, Tennessee as the Highlander Research and Education Center.
Title provided by cataloger.
"Integrated in All Respects" is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia in association with the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies and the Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection. - Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_efhf_efhf
- Digital Object URL:
- https://purl.libs.uga.edu/russell/RBRL064EF-16mm_0003-01/video-access
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School film, Ed Friend visual materials, 1918-1990, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia.
- Extent:
- 1.0 moving image 10 minutes
- Original Collection:
- From the Ed Friend visual materials, 1918-1990, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.
- Contributing Institution:
- Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
- Rights:
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Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School film, 1957: Part 1
