Myles Horton Gets R.F.K. Book Award
Southern social activist Myles Horton has received posthumously the 1991 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his autobiography “The Long Haul.”
Horton, who died last year at the age of 84, founded the Highlander Folk School to teach poor people in the mountains of Tennessee how to solve social problems. Horton was involved in causes from the labor uprisings of the ‘30s through the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King was a frequent visitor to Highlander, and Rosa Parks attended a retreat there before her refusal to give up her seat that launched the Montgomery bus boycott. Honorable mention has been awarded to Andrew Revkin for his book “The Burning Season: Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest.”
An awards ceremony will be held on May 7 at the National Press Club in Washington.
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