"Integrated in all respects": Ed Friend's Highlander Folk School films and the politics of segregation
Footage of the Highlander Folks School anniversary celebration in 1957 and the subsequent broadside produced by the pro-segregation Georgia Commission on Education.
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Creator
Friend, Ed, 1912-1991
Contributor to Resource
Georgia Commission on Education, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Date of Original
1957
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
Men, White--Tennessee--Monteagle
Newspaper editors--Tennessee--Monteagle
Photographers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Photographs
Propaganda, Anti-communist--United States
Race relations
Racism--United States
Social integration--Tennessee--Monteagle
Social movements--Tennessee--Monteagle
Social reformers--Tennessee--Monteagle
Swimming---Tennessee--Monteagle
Women, White--Tennessee--Monteagle
United States--Race relations--Sources
Youth--Tennessee--Monteagle
Monteagle (Tenn.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)--Anniversaries, etc.
Southern Christian Leadership Conference--Employees
Georgia Commission on Education
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Southern Farm and Home (Magazine)--Employees
Tuskegee Institute--Employees
Daily worker (Harlem, N.Y.)
United Packing House Workers of America--Employees
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
Schneiderman, Harry
Seeger, Pete, 1919-
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
broadsides
unedited footage
Type
MovingImage, Text
Description
"Integrated in All Respects consists of Ed Friend's film of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee during Labor Day weekend in 1957 and the Georgia Commission on Education's propaganda broadside that features Friend's photographs and stills from his film. Founded in 1932, the Highlander Folk School served as an adult education center to promote social and economic justice. By the 1950s, the school began to focus on the Civil Rights movement and trained many of the movement's activists including Septima Clark and Rosa Parks. Sent by the Georgia Commission on Education, an anti-integration state committee founded during Marvin Griffin's administration, Ed Friend filmed the anniversary festivities without revealing his motives. Labor and civil rights activists such as Ralph Abernathy, Myles Horton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Aubrey Williams, Charles G. Gomillion, Rosa Parks, Abner W. Berry, Pete Seeger, Harry Schneiderman, Ralph Helstein, A. T. Walden, and Maurice McCrackin are featured in the footage. Friend also documented the integrated social activities during the weekend including dining, swimming, and dancing. Much of the footage and many stills were incorporated into the Commission's broadside linking the school and its civil rights activities with the communist movement., The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.
Language
eng
Original Collection
Film from the Ed Friend Visual Materials Collection, Richard B. Russell Library. Broadside from the S. Ernest Vandiver, Jr. Papers.
Contributing Institution
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
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