Howard Zinn
Professor Emeritus/Author/Writer/Historian
Host: Basima Farhat
Previously Aired On: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 – Listen to the Show!
Howard Zinn is one of the country’s most beloved and respected historians, the author of numerous books and plays, and a passionate activist for radical change. Zinn has placed himself at the center of the most important historical moments of the last thirty years, during which he has been admired as a writer and an important political and moral voice.
At the age of 18, Zinn was a shipyard worker; at 21 an Air Force bombardier. Both experiences helped shape a radical impulse, an opposition to war, and a passion for history. After getting his Ph.D. from Columbia University in history, he taught at Spelman College, where he worked with young Civil Rights activists including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. Zinn led anti-war protests, went to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan and testified in his friend, Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers trial. Zinn’s politically engaged life brought him into many arenas – imprisonment for civil disobedience, fights for open debate in universities, and activist work from the Vietnam era to the present.
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