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Howard Zinn's Southern Diary - Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism (Hardcover)
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Howard Zinn's Southern Diary - Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism (Hardcover)
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In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts
college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests
occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for
participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard
Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller A People's History
of the United States) was a professor of history at Spelman during
this era and served as an adviser to the Atlanta sit-in movement
and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zinn
mentored many of Spelman's students fighting for civil rights at
the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. As a
key facilitator of the Spelman student movement, Zinn supported
students who challenged and criticized the campus's paternalistic
social restrictions, even when this led to conflicts with the
Spelman administration. Zinn's involvement with the Atlanta student
movement and his closeness to Spelman's leading student and faculty
activists gave him an insider's view of that movement and of the
political and intellectual world of Spelman, Atlanta University,
and the SNCC. Robert Cohen presents a thorough historical overview
as well as an entree to Zinn's diary. One of the most extensive
records of the political climate on a historically black college in
1960s America, Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a
fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic
freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to
Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the
student movement.
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