Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl

The Long Haul

The 1992 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award was presented to Myles Horton and Herbert and Judith Kohl for The Long Haul and Andrew Revkin for The Burning Season: The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest.

The Long Haul is the autobiography of Myles Horton, a labor organizer and founder of the Highlander School. Highlander was perhaps the first school to use the principles of democratic education and would ultimately play a key role in the labor movement of the 1930s and Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and '70s.