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"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.

More About This Collection

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

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.

Metadata URL
https://dlg.usg.edu/collection/dlg_efhf

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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