Howard Zinn is coming to town.
Mercredi 19 novembre 2008, 19h30, Salle Marie-Gérin-Lajoie, Pavillon Judith-Jasmin, 405, rue Ste-Catherine E.
Zinn was raised in a working-class family in Brooklyn, and flew bombing missions for the United States in World War II, an experience he now points to in shaping his opposition to war. In 1956, he became a professor at Spelman College in Atlanta, a school for black women, where he soon became involved in the Civil rights movement, which he participated in as an adviser to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and chronicled, in his book SNCC: The New Abolitionists. Zinn collaborated with historian Staughton Lynd and mentored a young student named Alice Walker. When he was fired in 1963 for insubordination related to his protest work, he moved to Boston University, where he became a leading critic of the Vietnam War.
He is perhaps best known for A People's History of the United States, which presents American history through the eyes of those he feels are outside of the political and economic establishment.
1 comment:
I would gladly come, but instead it seems I prefer paying 220.00$ and have to listen to some fucking idiot arab insult me and tell me how to behave to get a head start in the rat race, every fucking wednesday night until christmas.
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