Record: the document says itPattern: documents line upLens: our readingOpen: not yet provenDisputed: argued, often by a hostile witness
Year: 1932 · Places: Tennessee
SUMMARYHighlander Folk School and Septima Clark (Nov 8, 2026; TANASI line research)
RECORD (Septima P. Clark, oral history interview by Eugene Walker, July 30, 1976, Southern Oral History Program; crmvet.org transcript)"I started working at the Highlander Folk School in 1954, and we had a court case in 1959"; the citizenship school was "a program designed to eliminate illiteracy and get people ready to register and vote"; "It was really a school for problems, but it was designated as a 'communist' outfit"; "I was arrested, and padlocks were put on the doors at Highlander Folk School"; "They arrested me, finally, they said, for teaching in an integrated group."
RECORD (Wikipedia, "Highlander Research and Education Center")"Founded in 1932 by activist Myles Horton, educator Don West, and Methodist minister James A. Dombrowski"; first located at Summerfield, Grundy County, "between Monteagle and Tracy City"; trained "Rosa Parks prior to her historic role in the Montgomery bus boycott"; "In July 1959, Highlander was raided and padlocked during an interracial voter-education workshop"; the state "revoked Highlander's charter, and confiscated and auctioned the school's land and property"; "In 1961 the Highlander staff reincorporated ... and moved to Knoxville."
PATTERNteaching people to read and register was charged as a crime and the land was seized and auctioned
DISPUTEDraid/arrest date: July 1959 (Wikipedia) vs the transcript's "August 30, 1969 [1959]."
LENS (WW9)Matriarch: a teacher's literacy was the threat
OPENTennessee court record of the charter case (Grundy County, 1959–61); Tennessee Encyclopedia Highlander entry (John Glen); Clark's own book Echo in My Soul (1962). Connects: P872, P873.