Source: Freedom Summer Digital Collection at Wisconsin Historical Society
This 1964 memo from Howard Zinn to Bob Moses (a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) outlined a plan to minimize violence in Mississippi for the upcoming Freedom Summer, when hundreds of volunteers would be arriving to help African-American residents register to vote, establish a new political party, and learn about history and politics in the newly-formed Freedom Schools. The memo also addressed ways to pressure President Johnson to enforce constitutional rights of citizens exercising their right to vote.
Source: Howard Zinn Papers, housed at New York University's Tamiment Library
We share this letter from the Howard Zinn Papers, housed at New York University's Tamiment Library. Pete Seeger wrote to Zinn in 2006, asking for a book recommendation on Rutherford B. Hayes.
Source: Hall-Hoag Collection, Brown University
In this letter dated June 3, 1968, Howard Zinn replies to an inquiry from Grace Hoag asking about the “communist manipulation of demonstrations.” Zinn defends the integrity of young people “who are too intelligent to be led astray.”
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.
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."
From the Archives
Memo to Bob Moses | 1964
Posted: January 18, 2016 by Howard Zinn Website
Source: Freedom Summer Digital Collection at Wisconsin Historical Society
This 1964 memo from Howard Zinn to Bob Moses (a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) outlined a plan to minimize violence in Mississippi for the upcoming Freedom Summer, when hundreds of volunteers would be arriving to help African-American residents register to vote, establish a new political party, and learn about history and politics in the newly-formed Freedom Schools. The memo also addressed ways to pressure President Johnson to enforce constitutional rights of citizens exercising their right to vote.Category: From the Archives Tags: Civil Rights Movement, In the South, SNCC
Letter from Pete Seeger | Feb. 6, 2006
Posted: January 18, 2016 by Howard Zinn Website
Source: Howard Zinn Papers, housed at New York University's Tamiment Library
We share this letter from the Howard Zinn Papers, housed at New York University's Tamiment Library. Pete Seeger wrote to Zinn in 2006, asking for a book recommendation on Rutherford B. Hayes.Category: From the Archives, Photos Tags: From the Archives: Tamiment Library
Letter to Grace Hoag | June 3, 1968
Posted: January 18, 2016 by Howard Zinn Website
Source: Hall-Hoag Collection, Brown University
In this letter dated June 3, 1968, Howard Zinn replies to an inquiry from Grace Hoag asking about the “communist manipulation of demonstrations.” Zinn defends the integrity of young people “who are too intelligent to be led astray.”Category: From the Archives Tags: Letters from Howard Zinn
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
Howard Zinn on “The Advocates” (1971)
Posted: April 20, 1971 by Howard Zinn Website
Category: Audio & Video, From the Archives, Video About Howard Zinn