![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | A Special Conversation with Howard Zinn - Joe Broadhurst/CKUT 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... Keywords: howard zinn; ant-war; history; vietnam; Iraq Downloads: 438 Average rating: (0 review) |