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Communist Training School Alleged in Highlander Labor Day Meeting
A Maryland era pamphlet claims a Labor Day gathering at Highlander Folk School Monteagle Tennessee conducted by a so called Communist Training School involved leaders of racial incidents and planned tactics to spark interracial strife. The piece accuses Highlander of Communist ties and cites figures like Myles Horton and Rev John B Thompson amid a broader critique of NAACP leadership and communist affiliations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert van Leer
Curry County
America
Dawn
Portland
Indiana
Monteagle
Tennessee
Norm Bosworth
United States of America
South
Supreme Court
Highlander Folk School
Martin Luther King
Rosa Parks
Charles C. Romillion
David Brooks
Allen McSwain
Conrad Brown
Montgomery
Tuskegee
Tallahassee
Clinton School
Konnonia Farms
Communist Party
United States
Georgian Commission On Education
Marvin Griffin
Georgia
Highland Folk School
Paul Church
Senate
Sub-committee On Internal Security
Myles Horton
Labor Day Training School
Dies Committee On Un-American Activities
North Carolina
John B Thompson
University of Chicago
Thompson
Abner W Berry
Central Committee
Aubrey Williams
Congressman Dies
National Citizens Political Action Committee
Morehouse College
Atlanta
NAACP
W. E. B. DuBois
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People