Interviewed by Daniella Romano • Brooklyn Navy Yard Archive • December 8, 2008
In this interview, Zinn shares detailed memories about growing up in Brooklyn, working as an apprentice shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, helping to organize an apprentice shipfitter association, organizing a winning basketball team, and his first date with his future wife.
Interviewed by Elyse Luray, PBS History Detectives • 2006
Elyse Luray: So why was there this renewed interest in the strike?
Howard Zinn: I think that the movements of the 1960s, of Black people in the South, of women, of people all over the country working against the war in Vietnam, of disabled people, there arose out of those movements, a greater interest in history that had been neglected in the orthodox teachings of the past. I think as part of that new interest in people's history, we began to get more interest in labor history, and therefore in the history of the Lawrence Strike.
The Advocates • April 20, 1971
"When very serious evils confronted the American people, they had to go beyond the Congressmen and Senators, and they had to commit civil disobedience and they had even to break the law."
On February 11, 1963 at Emory University, Howard Zinn participated in a debate with Fulton Lewis III, a journalist and member of the House Un-American Activities Committee on the question of “Shall the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?” Zinn noted this in his diary and the two-and-half hour event was recorded.…
From the Archives
Howard Zinn Describes Work in the Navy Yards
Posted: December 8, 2008 by Howard Zinn Website
In this interview, Zinn shares detailed memories about growing up in Brooklyn, working as an apprentice shipfitter in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, helping to organize an apprentice shipfitter association, organizing a winning basketball team, and his first date with his future wife.
Category: Audio & Video, Audio and Video with Howard Zinn, From the Archives, Video With Howard Zinn
History Detectives: Howard Zinn on the Lawrence Textile Strike
Posted: January 1, 2006 by Howard Zinn Website
Elyse Luray: So why was there this renewed interest in the strike? Howard Zinn: I think that the movements of the 1960s, of Black people in the South, of women, of people all over the country working against the war in Vietnam, of disabled people, there arose out of those movements, a greater interest in history that had been neglected in the orthodox teachings of the past. I think as part of that new interest in people's history, we began to get more interest in labor history, and therefore in the history of the Lawrence Strike.
Category: Articles & Interviews, Audio & Video, Audio and Video About Howard Zinn, Audio and Video with Howard Zinn, From the Archives, Interviews With Howard Zinn Tags: PBS, Strikes
Howard Zinn on “The Advocates” (1971)
Posted: April 20, 1971 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, From the Archives, Video About Howard Zinn
Shall the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?
Posted: February 11, 1963 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, Audio With Howard Zinn, Excerpts, From the Archives Tags: Activism, Committee on Un-American Activities