Myles Horton (July 5, 1905 - January 1990) was an American educator, socialist and cofounder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement. A poor white from Savannah in western Tennessee, his social and political views were strongly influenced by radical Social Gospel theologian Reinhold Niebuhr under whom he studied at the Union Theological Seminary in New York City. Wikipedia
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In 1932, Myles Horton--at the age of 27--founded Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee. A student of Reinhold Niebuhr at Union Theological Seminary, Mr. Horton had traveled to Copenhagen to observe firsthand the Danish folk schools which became www.halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/1998/horton.html
Myles Horton , who died in January 1990, was a major figure in the civil rights movement and founder of the Highlander Folk School, later the highlander Research and Education Center. Paulo Freire , author of Pedagogy of the Oppressed , established the P www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/804_reg.html
Myles Horton was a pioneer in the cause of social justice within the Southern Region of America. He founded the Highlander Folk School in 1932 in Monteagle, Tennessee, about 55 miles northwest of Chattanooga. The school was dedicated to teaching blacks www.uawregion8.net/Activist-HOF/M-Horton.htm