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Education in Black and White : Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice

Title: Education in Black and White : Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice / Stephen Preskill.
Author: Preskill, Stephen, 1950-
Publication: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description

ix, 369 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"How Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School catalyzed social justice and democratic education. For too long, the story of life-changing teacher and activist Myles Horton has escaped the public spotlight. An inspiring and humble leader whose work influenced the Civil Rights Movement, Horton helped thousands of marginalized people gain greater control over their lives. Born and raised in early twentieth-century Tennessee, Horton was appalled by the disrespect and discrimination that was heaped on poor people-both black and white-throughout Appalachia. He resolved to create a place, available to all, where regular people could talk to each other, learn from one another, and get to the heart of issues of class and race and right and wrong. And so in 1932, Horton cofounded the Highlander Folk School, smack in the middle of Tennessee. Education in Black and White is the first biography of Myles Horton in 25 years and focuses, in particular, on the educational theories and strategies he first developed at Highlander to serve the interests of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. His personal vision became an essential influence on everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis. Stephen Preskill chronicles how Myles Horton gained influence as an advocate for organized labor, an activist for civil rights, a supporter of Appalachian self-empowerment, an architect of an international popular education network, and a champion for direct democracy, showing how the example he set remains education's last best hope today"--

Subject

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Beginnings -- The lessons of ozone -- Graduate education and Denmark's folk schools -- Highlander's beginnings -- Building a more stable highlander -- Zilphia Horton and Highlander's "Singing Army" -- Racial equality within the union movement -- The white supremacist versus the social egalitarian -- Mrs. Parks goes to highlander -- The citizenship school on Johns Island -- Highlander and SNCC -- From civil rights to Appalachia -- Leadership and research in Ivanhoe -- Myles Horton, internationalist -- We make the road by walking.

Call Number

Sc E 22-507

ISBN

9780520302051
0520302052

LCCN

2020035403

OCLC

1192302905

Author

Preskill, Stephen, 1950- author.

Title

Education in Black and White : Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice / Stephen Preskill.

Publisher

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-507

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