"Martin Luther King....At Communist Training School" broadside, 1963

File — Box: 2, Folder: 8

Identifier: 17

Staff Only

Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

This collection consists of materials related to social movements throughout the 20th century. There are materials from the Black civil rights movement, Chicano Movement, the United Farm Workers, the Young Lords movement, and surrounding the events of the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles. There are a wide variety of materials, including photographs of movement leaders, art inspired from the Chicano movement, original banners from organizations involved in these movements, posters, programs, and periodicals.

Dates

Creation: 1963

Langauge of Materials

From the Collection:

Languages represented in the collection: English, Spanish.

Access

This collection is open for research.

Extent

From the Collection: 7.5 Linear Feet (4 document boxes, 1 oversize doc box, 1 half-size document box, 4 flat oversize boxes)

Additional Description

Note

Broadside produced by Poor Richard's Book Shop in Los Angeles reproducing a photograph of Martin Luther King, Abner W. Berry, Aubrey Williams, and Myles Horton in a classroom of the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. The text identifies the subjects, calling them the "four horsemen of racial agitation...[who] have brought tension, disturbance, strife and violence in the advancement of the Communist doctrine of 'racial nationalism.'"

The Highlander Folk School was founded by Don West and Myles Horton in 1953 as a training facility for southern civil rights workers; it was the frequent subject of attacks from anti-integrationists. Opening in May 1960 by Frank and Florence Ranuzzi, Poor Richard's Book Shop was a politcal headquarters for the conservative movement in Southern California. Poor Richard's catered to national and international customers, and the Ranuzzis built a thriving walk-in and mail-order business, producing bumper stickers, flyers, and organizing protests dedicated to the cause of defeating communism.