Paperback, 231 pages
English language
Published Nov. 19, 1997 by Teachers College Press.
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.
Direct and clear and wry autobiography of the ideas behind Highlander Folk School, and its role in catalyzing movements for social justice from labor organizing into the early civil rights projects. Pragmatically radical insight on education & learning, power, solidarity, violence, humility.
