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The Myles Horton Reader: Education For Social Change

The Myles Horton Reader: Education For Social Change

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 1572332719
ISBN13: 9781572332713
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: Jul 22 2003
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.18
Height: 1.01 Width: 6.26 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Cornel West has called Myles Horton an indescribably courageous and visionary white brother from Tennessee. Horton (1905-1990) cofounded the Highlander Folk School (now known as the Highlander Research and Education Center), an institution controversial from its beginnings.

During the early labor movement, the Highlander School sponsored programs for both union organizers and rank-and-file members; the staff of Highlander saw education as a way to approach and work through problems. Issues of race were always important to the school, which became a beacon for the civil rights movement; its summer institutes included such influential participants as Rosa parks, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Andrew Young.

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