Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism

Synopsis

The activist and author of A People&’s History of the United States records an in-depth and personal account of the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into the historic protests occurring across Atlanta. At the time, Howard Zinn was a history professor at Spelman and served as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Zinn mentored many of Spelman&’s students fighting for civil rights at the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn&’s involvement with the Atlanta student movement and his closeness to Spelman&’s leading activists gave him an insider&’s view of the political and intellectual world of Spelman, Atlanta University, and the SNCC. He recorded his many insights and observations of the time in his Spelman College diary. Robert Cohen presents Zinn&’s diary in full along with a thorough historical overview and helpful contextual notes. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn&’s dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the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.

Copyright:

2018

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Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

309 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780820353234

Related ISBNs:

9780820353227

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press

Date of Addition:

09/17/23

Copyrighted By:

University of Georgia Press

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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Foreword by:

Alice Walker