Myles Horton

Black women in Tennessee walk out of 1920 into the same locked door and it would stay locked for another 45 years.

In 1932, a man named Miles Horton opened a school on a mountain at Mont Eagle where black and white Southerners sit in the same room and learn to organize.

Highlander trains union organizers in the 30s and civil rights organizations in the 50s.

An old union hymn gets reworked there into We Shall Overcome.

It was proudly integrated.

And Miles Horton, the founder of Highlander, used to proudly say that highlander was the only place in the south where you could tea and pee together meaning you people lived together in the dormitories they shared dorm rooms they shared dorm i mean there was men's and women's dorms but within those they were racially mixed And they ate together, which was against the law in Tennessee.

They even danced together.

They danced.

He said, Highlander's too poor to have two different dormitories and two bathrooms and two dining rooms.

So we just had to mix it all up.

So this was Miles Horton's way of breaking the taboos.

And so Highlander becomes an extraordinarily