TY - BOOK ID - 135175795 TI - Education in black and white PY - 2021 SN - 0520972317 9780520972315 9780520302051 PB - Oakland, California DB - UniCat KW - Adult education KW - School administrators KW - Social justice and education. KW - Social aspects KW - Horton, Myles, KW - Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.) KW - Highlander Research and Education Center (Knoxville, Tenn.) KW - Black Lives Matter. KW - Eleanor Roosevelt. KW - Great Depression. KW - Highlander Folk School. KW - Martin Luther King. KW - Myles Horton. KW - Paolo Friere. KW - Rosa Parks. KW - South. KW - Tennessee. KW - activist. KW - anti intellectualism. KW - appalachia. KW - civil rights. KW - class. KW - cross cultural. KW - economic injustice. KW - factory. KW - history. KW - labor rights. KW - movement. KW - oppression. KW - race. KW - rural. KW - segregation. KW - social justice. KW - teacher. KW - union members. KW - untold story. KW - work. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135175795 AB - 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 that would be available to all, where regular people could talk, 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.The first biography of Myles Horton in twenty-five years, Education in Black and White focuses 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 keenly influenced everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis. Stephen Preskill chronicles how 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 Horton set remains education's best hope for today. ER -