- Real name
- Zilphia Mae Johnston Horton
- Born
- April 14, 1910
- Died
- April 11, 1956
- Country
- United States
- IPI
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00014416910 2 works
- Affiliation
- BMI
- Comments
- Influential educator, folklorist, musician, and social justice activist. She adapted, performed, and promoted the use of folk songs and hymns in the labor and civil rights movements. Also, Horton was the first music director of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee, founded by her husband
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