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Alert Americans Association broadside "Martin Luther King...At Communist Training School”, 1963 July 8

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Alert Americans Association published this broadside, "Martin Luther King...At Communist Training School,” on page four of The Augusta Courier. The boradside depicts a photo of a group of men in a class at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. Myles Horton founded the school in 1932; it was a center for adult education on labor rights and African American citizenship. As an integrated space, the school hosted civil rights leadership training. The broadside caption identifies Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) and three communist leaders, Abner W. Berry (1902-1987), Aubrey Williams (1890-1965), and Myles Horton (1905-1990), characterizing them as the "'Four Horsemen' of racial agitation.”

Dates

  • 1963 July 8

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This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 1 folder(s)

Language

From the Collection: English