In June 2018, Tiyo Attallah Salah-El died inside Pennsylvania’s Dallas State Correctional Institution. He was a musician, scholar, prison abolitionist who founded the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons, and a pen pal with Howard Zinn. We share a letter Zinn wrote to Salah-El and a video of a memorial service held for Salah-El at UMass Amherst where Salah-El’s papers are archived. Continue reading.
In this editorial, Howard Zinn nominates Eartha Kitt for Woman of the Year and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Man of the Year because “both refused to play the game” by speaking out against the Vietnam War. Read more.
This collection features items from the Howard Zinn Papers at the Tamiment Library, the Summer Freedom Digital Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society, and other historical repositories.
Learn more about the performance, film, and education projects Howard Zinn played a role in.