Billboards attacking MLK and Highlander were erected on roadsides throughout the south. Credit: Library of Congress
Pete Seeger singing in the Highlander library, 1957. Credit: WHS
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy at Highlander Folk School, September 1957. Credit: Highlander Research and Education Center
Guy Carawan leading “freedom songs” at a mass meeting supporting Nashville sit-in students (student leader John Lewis at far right). Credit: Nashville Public Library special collections
Guy Carawan leading singing period at a citizenship school class. Credit: Avery
Bernice Robinson and Septima Clark training citizenship school teachers. Credit: Avery
Esau Jenkins and Myles Horton in the Progressive Club grocery store on Johns Island, SC, site of the first hidden citizenship literacy class. Credit: Avery
Septima Clark, Rosa Parks and Leona McCauley (Rosa’s mother) at Highlander Folk School Credit: WHS
Moving Star Hall, Johns Island, SC Credit: SC Dep’t of Archives
Judge J. Waties and Elizabeth Waring Credit: Library of Congress
