Howard Zinn's Southern Diary: Sit-Ins, Civil Rights, and Black Women's Student Activism

by Robert Cohen

Book Overview

In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller A People's History of the United States) was a professor of history at Spelman during this era and served as an adviser to the Atlanta sit-in movement...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820353280
• ISBN13: 9780820353289
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"