Myles Horton
American educator · United States · On the map · Educators · Lived 1905 to 1990 · aged 84
Myles Falls Horton was an American educator and political activist. In 1932 he co-founded the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee as a center for adult learning. Over the decades, the school was involved in struggles for labor rights, civil rights, and environmental protection.
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Highlander's students and teachers included prominent Civil Rights Movement leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Andrew Young, Stokely Carmichael, Septima Clark, John Lewis, James Bevel, Bernard Lafayette, and others who would create the Nashville Student Movement.
