Myles Horton- Risk Taking

Myles Horton- Risk Taking
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Myles Horton was born in 1905, in Tennessee. His parents were both School teachers long before he was born but were dismissed since they didn’t have the minimum requirements for being a teacher when the requirements were increased to include a one-year High school education and, unfortunately, none of them had. This forced the parents to take menial jobs to support their family.
After school Horton resolved to create a school for students and teachers. This brought together white and African citizens who lived and worked together centrally to the norm in the current society that was largely segregated. Myles Horton contributed largely to progressive social action in the 1930’s. He contributed a lot to social change and education in Highlander Folk School which later became Highlander Research action center in the new market, TN.
Highlander supported civil rights movements while Myles Horton supported civil and labor activities. He believed that by use of education, one can build leadership that can bring people together and reason on a particular issue. By so doing, Myles Horton used collective action. Horton made many students and teachers realize their dreams, and this followed the likes of Martin Luther King Junior, Fanny Luo Hamer, among others. The school was a meeting point for civil rights activists, antipoverty workers, labor organizers and others gathered there to develop ideas and solut…