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Through the movement’s heyday, and as the mainstream period of the civil rights era waned, Highlander continued. From the 1970s onward, they organized against strip mining, toxic dumping, and pollution, advocating for workers, including the undocumented. Threats came from the state over the years, but Highlander lived on, even after Horton’s death
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policies, which were chopping the ladder they climbed up and then punishing people for falling.
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The metamorphosis from rash young newbie to jaded old-timer had happened slowly.