In this autobiography, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for almost 60 years, this school has touched the lives of many people, including Jane Addams, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In his own direct, modest, plain-spoken style, Myles Horton tells the story of the Highlander Folk School. A major catalyst for social change in the United States for more than 70 years, this school has touched the lives of so many people, including Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Pete Seeger. Filled with disarmingly honest insight and gentle humor, The Long Haul is an inspiring hymn to the possibility of social change. It is the story of Myles Horton, in his own words: the wise and moving recollections of a man of uncommon determination and vision.