Library: Guide to Source Material for Anti-Racist Activists and Thinkers: Myles Horton

Biography and Writings

The Long Haul: An Autobiography by Myles Horton with Judith Kohl and Herbert Kohl
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Publication Date: New York: Teachers' College Press, 1998; Originally published New York: Doubleday, 1990
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 70 years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, The Long Haul is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change. It is the story of Myles Horton, in his own words: the wise and moving recollections of a man of uncommon determination and vision.

We Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change by Myles Horton and Paulo Freire; Ed. by Brenda Bell, John Gaventa and John Peters
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Publication Date: Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990
This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns.
The Myles Horton Reader: Education for Social Change by Myles Horton
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Publication Date: Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2003

Highlander: No Ordinary School, 2nd ed. by John M. Glen
Call Number: Original edition, Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988 Ed.
Publication Date: Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1996