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1998 AESA Critics’ Choice Award
New edition now available from TC Press"Were I to choose America’s most influential and inspiring educator, it would be Myles Horton of Highlander."
–Studs Terkel
"Horton’s... story is an entire American Studies sequence in political courage."
–The New York Times
In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than sixty years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, this is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change.
