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Author Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010, author.

Title Howard Zinn's Southern diary : sit-ins, civil rights, and black women's student activism / Robert Cohen ; foreword by Alice Walker.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt
Nationality/regional group: nat Georgians (State of Georgia) lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ History teachers lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-261) and index.
Summary In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, helped organize 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 active in the black freedom movement at the time, including Alice Walker, Marian Wright Edelman, and Roslyn Pope. 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 SNCC. Robert Cohen presents a thorough historical overview as well as an entrée to the diary Zinn kept during this tumultuous time. One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Zinn's diary is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the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--Back cover.
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Subject Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010 -- Diaries.
Spelman College -- History.
Spelman College. (OCoLC)fst00577484
Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010. (OCoLC)fst01734796
African American student movements -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
African American universities and colleges -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- Atlanta -- History -- 20th century.
Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
African American universities and colleges. (OCoLC)fst00799426
African American student movements. (OCoLC)fst00799374
Georgia -- Atlanta. (OCoLC)fst01204627
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Diaries. (OCoLC)fst01423794
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Diaries.
Autobiographies.
Added Author Cohen, Robert, 1955 May 21- editor, writer of added commentary.
Walker, Alice, 1944- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Zinn, Howard, 1922-2010. Howard Zinn's Southern diary. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2018] 9780820353227 (DLC) 2017059453 (OCoLC)1019837118
ISBN 9780820353234 (electronic book)
082035323X (electronic book)
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