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Ella Baker: “One of the most consequential and yet one of the least honored people in America”

Howard Zinn introducing organizer Ella Baker. Southern Conference Education Fund. American Radio Works. April 24, 1968.
On April 24, 1968, Howard Zinn introduced organizer Ella Baker at a dinner honoring her work. Zinn described Baker as "one of the most consequential and yet one of the least honored people in America."

New Book Featuring Howard Zinn: Truth Has a Power of Its Own

Truth Has a Power of Its Own: Conversations About A People’s History is a collection of never-before-published conversations with Howard Zinn, conducted by the distinguished broadcast journalist Ray Suarez in 2007. Suarez’s probing questions and Zinn’s humane (and often humorous) voice—along with his keen moral vision—shine through every one of these lively and thought-provoking conversations, showing that Zinn’s work is as relevant as ever.

You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

By Howard Zinn. Book - Autobiography. Beacon Press. 1994; 2002; updated in 2018 with a foreword by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor.
In his memoir, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Zinn reflects on more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from his teenage years as a laborer in Brooklyn to teaching at Spelman College, where he emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice.

Voices of a People's History, 10th Anniversary Edition

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

Edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove. Book - Nonfiction. Seven Stories Press. 2004, 2009, 2014.
Voices of a People’s History is the companion volume to A People’s History of the United States featuring selected testimonies to living history—speeches, letters, poems, songs—left by the people who make history happen but who usually are left out of history books—women, workers, nonwhites with short introductions by Zinn.

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present

By Howard Zinn. Book - Non-fiction. HarperCollins. 1980; multiple updates with a new introduction by Anthony Arnove in 2015.
Howard Zinn's groundbreaking work on U.S. history. Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People’s History of the United Stateshas been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools — with its emphasis on great men in high places — to focus on the street, the home, and the workplace.

Tiyo Attallah Salah-El and Howard Zinn (undated) | HowardZinn.org

Commemorating Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, Prison Activist

Howard Zinn letter to Tiyo Attallah Salah-El. Papers of Tiyo Attallah Salah-El (1890-2006), University of Massachusetts Amherst. September 5, 2009.
Tiyo Attallah Salah-El (Sept. 13, 1932 – June 8, 2018) was a musician, scholar, and prison abolitionist who founded the Coalition for the Abolition of Prisons in 1995. Salah-El was 85 years and had been incarcerated for more than 40 years. He became pen pals with Howard Zinn who Zinn mentioned in his autobiography You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train.

Howard Zinn Guest Editorial (1968): “Refuse to play the game of silence in the midst of murder”

Op-ed by Howard Zinn. Clip from “What’s Happening Mr. Silver?” WGBH Boston. 1968.
Originally broadcast on “What’s Happening Mr. Silver?” on WGBH Boston, Howard Zinn lauds Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for their public resistance and calls on everyone to actively resist and protest social injustice.

Howard Zinn on Resistance (TV clip) | HowardZinn.org

Howard Zinn Lauds Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Their Resistance (1968)

Howard Zinn On Civil Disobedience

Howard Zinn interviewed by Cihan Aksan. State of Nature. Published January 2007 and republished Jan. 27, 2018.
To commemorate the eighth anniversary of the death of historian and activist Howard Zinn, we republish the interview we conducted with him in January 2007.

Noam Chomsky & Howard Zinn “Is There Hope in This Desperate Time?”

Talk by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. Homeless Empowerment Project. September 27, 2004.
At a fundraiser event for Spare Change street paper and the Homeless Empowerment Project, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn respond to the question: “Is There Hope in This Desperate Time?” Recorded on September 27, 2004.

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Ella Baker: “One of the most consequential and yet one of the least honored people in America”

New Book Featuring Howard Zinn: Truth Has a Power of Its Own

Voices of a People’s History of the United States

A People’s History of the United States: 1492 – Present

Commemorating Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, Prison Activist

Howard Zinn Guest Editorial (1968): “Refuse to play the game of silence in the midst of murder”

Howard Zinn Lauds Eartha Kitt and Dr. Benjamin Spock for Their Resistance (1968)

Howard Zinn On Civil Disobedience

Noam Chomsky & Howard Zinn “Is There Hope in This Desperate Time?”

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