{"product_id":"education-in-black-and-white-9780520302051","title":"Education in Black and White","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow Myles Horton and the Highlander Folk School catalyzed social justice and democratic education  For too long, the story of life-changing teacher and activist Myles Horton has escaped the public spotlight. An inspiring and humble leader whose work influenced the civil rights movement, Horton helped thousands of marginalized people gain greater control over their lives. Born and raised in early twentieth-century Tennessee, Horton was appalled by the disrespect and discrimination that was heaped on poor peopleboth black and whitethroughout Appalachia. He resolved to create a place that would be available to all, where regular people could talk, learn from one another, and get to the heart of issues of class and race, and right and wrong. And so in 1932, Horton cofounded the Highlander Folk School, smack in the middle of Tennessee.   The first biography of Myles Horton in twenty-five years, Education in Black and White focuses on the educational theories and strategies he first developed at Highlander to serve the interests of the poor, the marginalized, and the oppressed. His personal vision keenly influenced everyone from Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., to Eleanor Roosevelt and Congressman John Lewis. Stephen Preskill chronicles how Horton gained influence as an advocate for organized labor, an activist for civil rights, a supporter of Appalachian self-empowerment, an architect of an international popular-education network, and a champion for direct democracy, showing how the example Horton set remains education's best hope for today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With \u003ci\u003eEducation in Black and White\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen Preskill revisits and revives the story of Myles Horton and Tennessee’s Highlander Center. . . . a lucidly written book.\" * Chapter 16 *\u003cbr\u003e\"The most thorough study of Highlander and its founder to date.\" * Black Perspectives *\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Preskill's \u003ci\u003eEducation in Black and White\u003c\/i\u003e is a vital new addition to scholarship in the history of social movements in the United States.\" * Peace \u0026amp; Change *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue: The Highlander Fire of 2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \u003cbr\u003e 1. Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Lessons of Ozone\u003cbr\u003e 3. Graduate Education and Denmark's Folk Schools\u003cbr\u003e 4. Highlander's Beginnings\u003cbr\u003e 5. Building a More Stable Highlander\u003cbr\u003e 6. Zilphia Horton and Highlander's \"Singing Army\"\u003cbr\u003e 7. Racial Equality within the Union Movement\u003cbr\u003e 8. The White Supremacist versus the Social Egalitarian\u003cbr\u003e 9. Mrs. Parks Goes to Highlander\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Citizenship School on Johns Island\u003cbr\u003e 11. Highlander and SNCC\u003cbr\u003e 12. From Civil Rights to Appalachia\u003cbr\u003e 13. Leadership and Research in Ivanhoe\u003cbr\u003e 14. Myles Horton, Internationalist \u003cbr\u003e 15. We Make the Road by Walking\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Works Cited \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49371724349783,"sku":"9780520302051","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/education-in-black-and-white-9780520302051","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}