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Stepping Stones - Memoir of a Life Together (Paperback)
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Stepping Stones - Memoir of a Life Together (Paperback)
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Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in
movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and
Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with
workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from
similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities,
the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in
Northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of
living that they later sought to carry into the larger society.
Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of
history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children. But both
sought to address the social problems of their times through more
than their professions. After being involved in the Southern civil
rights movement and the movement against the war in Vietnam in the
1960s, both Staughton and Alice became lawyers. In the Youngstown,
Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of rank-and-file
organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for
prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under
supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to Central America
in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with the concept
of "accompaniment." To them, accompaniment means placing themselves
at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as dispensers of charity
or as guilty fugitives from the middle class, but as equals in a
joint process to which each person brings an essential kind of
expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers in the early
1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story will
encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the cause
of creating a better world.
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