Fired from the traditional Spelman for being too controversial, Zinn came to Boston University, where he opposed the Vietnam War.
His account is one of ordinary individuals taking small steps to battle racial injustice - integrating the Atlanta library system, sitting in with African-American students at lunch counters as a challenge to Jim Crow statutes, organizing Freedom Rides in Albany, Ga., and voter registration in Selma, Ala., in defiance of racist local governments and often pusillanimous federal authorities. A third of this text is devoted to reminiscences about the civil rights struggle in the South. Zinn's experiences at Spelman radicalized him. He attended Columbia University, received a doctorate in history in 1956, and became head of the history department at Spelman College, an African-American women's school in Atlanta. The son of poor Jewish immigrants to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Zinn worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and served as a bombardier in Europe in WW II. Declarations of Independence, 1990, etc.) recalls his struggles against American racism and war, and he expresses his hope for the future, in this memoir and manifesto. The eminent radical historian (Boston Univ.
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