As I completed my first semester of student teaching, my cooperating teacher recommended a book that would change my career and life. Myles Horton’s The Long Haul tells the story of a lifelong devotion to education and true democracy, and it showed me just how powerful teachers can be. It introduced me to an African-American woman named Bernice Robinson, a Charleston beautician who, in 1957, was the first teacher in what was eventually known as the Citizenship School. I was fascinated by Robinson’s work—and later, as a graduate student of the late scholar Manning Marable, devoted the better part of the year to learning more.
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