Books that inspired “I AM”
A People’s History of the United States (P.S.)
The People Speak: American Voices, Some Famous, Some Little Known
Other Books
Howard Zinn – You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn (Series in Critical Narrative)
Howard Zinn on Democratic Education (Series in Critical Narrative)
Original Zinn: Conversations on History and Politics
Website
About Howard
Howard Zinn grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At the age of 18 he became a shipyard worker and three years later joined the Air Force. He flew bomber missions during World War II, after which he returned to Brooklyn, got married, and occupied a basement apartment. His experiences in the shipyard and in the Air Force helped shape his opposition to war and passion for history.
He went to college under the GI Bill and received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University. He taught at Spelman College, where he served as an advisor to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked with young Civil Rights Movement activists, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. He was fired from Spelman for his support of the students. (He returned in 2005 to give the commencement address.)
Zinn led antiwar protests, went to Vietnam with Daniel Berrigan, and testified in Daniel Ellsberg’s Pentagon Papers trial. His 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.