1930s High School YB author activist HOWARD ZINN ~ People's History Civil Rights

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1930's High School Yearbook
featuring students and teachers, activities and sports, candids and local advertisement, and including graduating senior and future award winning author and activist Howard Zinn.
Howard Zinn
was an
American author, historian, playwright, socialist intellect, and political activist
. He
wrote over twenty books, including his best-selling and influential
A People's HIstory of the United States
and
You Can't Stay Neutral on a Moving Train.
His plays include:
Emma, Daughter of Venus, and Marx in Soho
. Zinn considered himself a socialist, and h
e wrote extensively about the Civil Rights Movement, anti-war movements, and labor history of the United States
. His memoir,
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
, was to become the title of the 2004 documentary about Zinn and his work
. He also appears in films:
Empire of Humanity?, American Feud: a History of Liberals and Conservatives, Zinn On Class in America
, and others, and is part of audio recordings
Heroes & Martyrs: Emma Goldman, Sacco & Vanzetti, and the Revolutionary Struggle,
and
Stories Hollywood Never Tells
. Howard was a passionate insightful and teacher full of wit at Spelman College and Boston University and inspired those like Alice Walker, Eric Foner, and Keanga Yamahtta Taylor. He was an active participant in social movements, he taught at a black women's college in the South, and became an active participant, both on campus and within the movementy at large--so much so that it cost him his job. When he resumed at Boston University and spoke out and organozed against the war, the university president repeatedly tried to have him fired. Zinn writes that he would tell his students that he's not a neutral person, that all ideas do not carry the same significance, that the level of injustice and inequity in the world requires that we take positions. Positions should absolutely be rooted in facts, in history. And life is really too short to equivocate. We have to take positions on things and then fight for them. Zinn, like his friend Noam Chomsky have been largely feared by the right wing in this country, and i
n 2013
former Republican Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels
asked his education advisors to make certian that Zinn's works were not taught in K–12 public schools in the state. And in
2017, Arkansas Republican Representative Kim Hendren
submitted a "Bill introduced to ban Zinn's books from Arkansas public schools.
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