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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.

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