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Howard Zinn's Southern Diary
Robert Cohen
其他書名
Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism
出版University of Georgia Press, 2018-09-15
主題Political Science / Civil RightsSocial Science / DiscriminationLiterary Collections / Diaries & JournalsPolitical Science / Political Ideologies / RadicalismHistory / United States / 20th Century
ISBN082035323X9780820353234
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wuZoDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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 It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn’s dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the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.