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Blaming Outside Agitators

By Howard Zinn. Excerpt from chapter three of Howard Zinn’s autobiography You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
"When students begin to defy established authority it often appears to besieged administrators that “someone must be behind this,” the implication being that young people are incapable of thinking or acting on their own."
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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.
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