Racism/Race Relations Archives

Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Sit-ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women’s Student Activism

By Robert Cohen. Foreword by Alice Walker. University of Georgia Press. 2018.
A historical overview as well as an entrée to Howard Zinn's diary that captures the political climate on a historically Black college in the 1960s. Documents the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman College and led to Zinn's dismissal in 1963 for supporting the student movement.

Albany: A Study in National Responsibility

By Howard Zinn. Report. Southern Regional Council. 1962.
Report of the investigation Zinn did on the mass civil rights demonstrations in Albany, Georgia.

The Southern Mystique

By Howard Zinn. Book-Nonfiction. Knopf, 1959; Touchstone 1972; ; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
In one of his earliest published works, Howard Zinn writes about his experiences teaching and organizing with the Civil Rights Movement in the South.

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

By Howard Zinn. Book - Nonfiction. Beacon Press, 1964; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
A detailed history of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

Postwar America: 1945–1971

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Bobbs-Merrill, 1973; South End Press, 2002; Haymarket Books, 2013.
The postwar boom in the U.S. brought about massive changes in U.S. society and culture. In this accessible volume, historian Howard Zinn offers a view from below on these vital years in American history.

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

By Howard Zinn. Book - Essays. Seven Stories Press. 1997, updated in 2009.
A volume of essays emphasizing six areas that have been important to Zinn's work since the late 1950s—race, class, war, law, and history.

Howard Zinn on Race

By Howard Zinn. Seven Stories. 2011. Introduction by Cornel West.
A collection of Howard Zinn’s choice of the shorter writings and speeches that best reflect his views on America’s most taboo topic. In clear, compassionate, and present prose, Zinn gives us his thoughts on the Abolitionists, the march from Selma to Montgomery, John F. Kennedy, picketing, sit-ins, and, finally, the message he wanted to send to New York University students about race in a speech he delivered during the last week of his life.

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.

Howard Zinn: How Racial Prejudice Can Change

Howard Zinn interviewed by Patricia Marx. WNYC Radio. 1960s.
Recorded in the 1960s (estimate 1964-1965 based on transcript), Patricia Marx sits down with historian Howard Zinn to discuss his books, SNCC: The New Abolitionists and The Southern Mystique. Zinn describes his experiences teaching at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1956 to 1963, and his subsequent observations on racial prejudice in the southern United States.

Theme and Topic: Racism/Race Relations

Albany: A Study in National Responsibility

The Southern Mystique

SNCC: The New Abolitionists

Postwar America: 1945–1971

The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Howard Zinn on Race

Howard Zinn: How Racial Prejudice Can Change

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