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Stephen Preskill Revisits the Story of Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School Preskill will discuss Tweet With Education in Black and White: Myles Horton and the Highlander Center’s Vision for Social Justice, Stephen Preskill revisits and revives the story of Myles Horton and Tennessee’s Highlander Center. Historians of the civil rights and labor movements have long known about the significance of Highlander, but this lucidly written book frames Myles Horton’s story “as an account of an educator, passionately committed to helping adults, mostly poor and forgotten, to wake up to their own historic agency.” Highlander’s vision of education required people coming together, comparing experiences and making decisions for themselves. Horton and the many others he worked with at Highlander facilitated deep, searching exchanges more than they taught people in a formal sense. Horton worried less about reaching ultimate answers to social question

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