[Magdalen] Highlander Center

[Jay Weigel]

I would hope they'd transcribed at least some of these files to computer,
but the originals were priceless....

What a loss. And like you, Grace, I hope to hell it's not arson.

On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 10:27 AM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I don’t know many of you are familiar with the Highlander Center in
> Tennessee—I’m sure Jay is—but they had a fire yesterday that burned the
> main building to the ground. All of the documents and files from their
> history were destroyed. They were heavily involved in civil rights and
> justice issues throughout their history. Among the folks trained there were
> ML King, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Eleanor Roosevelt.......
> Earlier in their history they were terrorized by the KKK, investigation by
> HUAC, and threatened with closure.
> I hope this doesn’t turn out to be arson, but in the current climate, it
> wouldn’t surprise me if it was. It’s under investigation.