In her memoir LANTERNS, Edelman remembers professor and historian Howard Zinn as one of her more important mentors.
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The author of the groundbreaking popular study A PEOPLE'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, first published in 1980, Howard Zinn was a professor at Spelman College and later at Boston University. In the 1960s, Zinn was an early foe of the Vietnam war and a member of The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). His approach to history includes those often excluded and disenfranchised, and his books uses examples from people's lives, especially the working class. His HISTORY has been a much- more...
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This will change the way you look at the world, the way you consider things like justice and liberty.