Bill Moyers' Journal The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly, Part 2
TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, News

Bill Moyers' Journal

The Adventures of a Radical Hillbilly, Part 2

TV Episode | 60 min | Documentary, News

Bill Moyers continues his conversation with Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee which, since the 1930s, has taught grass-roots leaders to how to organize. In the 1930s and 1940s, Horton worked...See moreBill Moyers continues his conversation with Myles Horton, the founder of Highlander Research and Education Center in Tennessee which, since the 1930s, has taught grass-roots leaders to how to organize. In the 1930s and 1940s, Horton worked to organize unions in the South. In the 1950s and 1960s, he worked to change the South's segregationist practices, attracting to Highlander civil rights leaders such as Dr Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Stokely Carmichael, Julian Bond, Marion Barry, John Lewis, and Andrew Young. Part 2 of 2. See less