![]() ![]() Myles Horton, who died in January 1990, was a major figure in the civil rights movement and founder of the Highlander Folk School, later the highlander Research and Education Center. The ideas of these men developed through two very different channels: Horton's, from the Highlander Center, a small, independent residential education center situated outside the formal schooling system and the state Freire's, from within university and state-sponsored programs. Throughout their highly personal conversations recorded here, Horton and Freire discuss the nature of social change and empowerment and their individual literacy campaigns. This dialogue between two of the most prominent thinkers on social change in the twentieth century was certainly a meeting of giants. ![]()
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