This is the grave of Myles and Zilphia Horton. Born in 1905 in Savannah, Tennessee, Horton grew up poor and white in the peak of Jim Crow America. There's little reason to think that a person who grew up in these circumstances would later be...
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On October 9, 1961, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a Tennessee state Supreme Court order revoking the charter of the Highlander Folk School. This allowed the state to.