| Identifier: | di_09928 |
| Title: | Martin Luther King at Communist Training School |
| Description: | During the Selma to Montgomery Voting Rights march marchers passed by a billboard showing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. attending a 1957 event at the Highlander Folk School, a Tennessee social justice training center. Founded by Myles Horton, the school trained labor movement organizers during the Great Depression, then turned its focus to civil rights leadership training and voter education initiatives during the 1950s. The White Citizens Council posted over 200 similar billboards throughout the South in 1965 in an attempt to discredit King by associating him with Communism. |
| State: | Alabama |
| Country: | United States |
| Date: | 1965 |
| Creator: | Martin, James "Spider" |
| Source: | Martin (James "Spider") Photographic Archive |
| Publisher: | Dolph Briscoe Center for American History |
| Rights: | Please contact the Briscoe Center for further information regarding the use of this material. |
| Box: | 2015-016/1 |
| Folder: | Bloody Sunday and Selma - Montgomery Marches. Selects, Film negatives, 1965 |
| Format: | Film negative |
| Size: | 35 mm |
