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- MILESTONES, Page 79
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- DIED. Myles Horton, 84, a founder in 1932 of the Highlander
- Folk School, one of the South's most influential institutions
- of social change; in New Market, Tenn. Closed in 1960, the
- school reopened as the Highlander Research and Education Center
- and continued to battle poverty and racism and champion
- environmentalism. Horton's soon to be published autobiography,
- The Long Haul, recounts his life of activism.
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