You can't be neutral on a moving train : a personal history of our times /
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a pow...
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Beacon Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The question period in Kalamazoo
- Part 1: South and the movement. Going south : Spelman College ; "Young ladies who can picket" ; "A President is like a gardener" ; "My name is freedom" : Albany, Georgia ; Selma, Alabama ; "I'll be here" : Mississippi
- Part 2: War. A veteran against the war ; "Sometimes to be silent is to lie" : Vietnam ; The last teach-in ; "Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order"
- Part 3: Scenes and changes. In jail : "the world is topsy-turvy" ; In court : "the heart of the matter" ; Growing up class-conscious ; A yellow rubber chicken : battles at Boston University ; The possibility of hope.