Title Education in black and white : Myles Horton and the Highlander Center's vision for social justice / Stephen Preskill

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

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 369 pages) : illustrations Contents Prologue: The Highlander fire of 2019 -- Introduction -- 1 Beginnings -- 2 The lessons of ozone -- 3 Graduate education and Denmark's folk schools -- 4 Highlander's beginnings -- 5 Building a more stable Highlander -- 6 Zilphia Horton and Highlander's "Singing Army" -- 7 Racial equality within the union movement -- 8 The white supremacist versus the social egalitarian -- 9 Mrs. Parks goes to Highlander -- 10 The citizenship school on Johns Island -- 11 Highlander and SNCC -- 12 From civil rights to Appalachia -- 13 Leadership and research in Ivanhoe -- 14 Myles Horton, internationalist -- 15 We make the road by walking -- Epilogue 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"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Black Lives Matter Eleanor Roosevelt Great Depression Highlander Folk School Martin Luther King Myles Horton Paolo Friere Rosa Parks South Tennessee activist anti intellectualism appalachia civil rights class cross cultural economic injustice factory history labor rights movement oppression race rural segregation social justice teacher union members untold story work Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-353) and index Notes In English Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed October 13, 2021) Subject Horton, Myles, 1905-1990. SUBJECT Horton, Myles, 1905-1990 fast Subject Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) SUBJECT Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) fast Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) fast Subject School administrators -- Tennessee -- Monteagle -- Biography Social justice and education. Adult education -- Social aspects -- Tennessee HISTORY / Social History Adult education -- Social aspects School administrators Social justice and education Tennessee Tennessee -- Monteagle Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies Form Electronic book LC no. 2020035404 ISBN 0520972317 9780520972315

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