Myles Falls Horton was an American educator, socialist, and co-founder of the Highlander Folk School, famous for its role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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20 Facts About Myles Horton
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Myles Horton wanted blacks and whites to meet and improve their lives.
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Myles Horton envisioned a place for liberals and Southern radicals to come together.
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Myles Horton applied this concept to the Highlander School in order to create an atmosphere for social change.
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Myles Horton immediately applied for a new charter and reopened the school.
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Myles Horton believed in a society where there was justice for all.
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Myles Horton attended the radical Union Theological Seminary and joined the Social Gospel Movement.
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Myles Horton was born in 1905 in Savannah, Tennessee to a poor family.
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Myles Horton had two brothers, Daniel and Demas, and one sister, Elsie Pearl.
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Myles Horton's father was a Workers' Alliance member and his mother served as a respected and socially active community member.
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Myles Horton' parents were good, peace-loving people who tried to raise their kids as respectful, affectionate and devoted people.
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Elsie Falls Myles Horton helped to organize classes for less fortunate people, and tried to have them become more educated people of the community.
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Myles Horton left home at the young age of fifteen to attend high school and supported himself through working in a sawmill and then a box factory.
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Myles Horton learned the value of hard work through working these jobs.
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Myles Horton attended many colleges, including Cumberland University, the University of Chicago and the Union Theological Seminary.
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Myles Horton attended Cumberland University in Tennessee in 1924 and continued his work with local unions.
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Myles Horton wanted to find a way in which the social condition could be challenged and changed and education became his nonviolent instrument.
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Zilphia Myles Horton was a constant collaborator with Myles Horton until her death in 1956.
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