Photo: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, Pete Seeger, Charis Horton, Rosa Parks, & Ralph Abernathy...

[Playinghardball]

...at Highlander Center in 1957....



More at: http://zinnedproject.org/materials/pete-seeger/

[Le Taz Hot]

1. Kick

We lost a GREAT man today.

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[etherealtruth]

3. An awesome group and photo .... thanks!

[malaise]

4. K & R

We shall overcome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Shall_Overcome

[kwolf68]

5. Great photo

I am unfamiliar with Horton, but this is a reminder that some individual people believe in a greater purpose.

[DamnYankeeInHouston]

8. She's not on Wikipedia. Does anyone know her bio?

[El_Johns]

11. she's the daughter of this guy, founder of the Highlander Folk School.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Horton

Myles Falls Horton (July 9, 1905 – January 19, 1990)[1] was an American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement (Movement leader James Bevel called Horton "The Father of the Civil Rights Movement&quot . Horton taught and heavily influenced most of the era's leaders

[mountain grammy]

6. The amazing story of the Civil Rights movement and the Highlander school..

For their perseverance in the face of enormous obstacles, we will all be eternally grateful.

Check out the history of the Highlander Folk School

http://highlandercenter.org/media/timeline/

[ReRe]

7. "You can padlock a building...

... but you can't padlock an idea." ~~ Myles Lewis

Thanks Mountain Grammy...

[mountain grammy]

10. Indeed! These people fill me with awe. That photo! A man with an idea.

[ReRe]

12. It beats all I ever seen, Grammy...

... how could anyone with a brain in their head call any of those people "dangerous"?

[Enthusiast]

13. +1. One can only understand it in the context of, "They hate us for our freedom."

Or, They hate us for our desire for freedom (and justice).

[ReRe]

15. Back in 1957...

... it was J. Edgar Hoover and remnants of McCarthyists. Everyone was a "commie" to them. If you was a nice person and doing something for the community or your fellow man, you was suspect. And yes, that would be the new meme. Because any time they say the words "communism" or "commies", they are laughed out of the house. That fish is dead. If human kindness is communism, they might as well come and get my arse.

[ReRe]

9. K&R

Thanks so much for this historic photo. "Commies", is what the Fascists called them. God-fearing, peace loving and people-loving people, every single one of them. Their work is not done. We will carry on.

[Cha]

14. thanks Play