Howard Zinn Digital Collection • #HowardZinn100

Promote material about Howard Zinn (1922–2010) to 21st century historians, scholars, & activists. Managed by •

[PM Press @PMPressOrg]

https://t.co/4EqnvaA1Zj Digital Curator for @teachingchange Lauren Cooper and their team have archived and cataloged nearly 30,000 items and over 183,000 pages from Howard Zinn's personal papers.

Learn more & explore at https://t.co/TAB6c1VvKl

Radicalize the archives!

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"And in such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, as Albert Camus suggested, not to be on the side of the executioners."🧵5/5
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For Indigenous Peoples’ Day:
In "A People's History," Howard Zinn described why he told the story of Columbus’s arrival "from the viewpoint of the Arawaks" and "the inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history."🧵1/5
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"The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and conquered, masters and slaves, capitalists and workers, dominators and dominated in race and sex."🧵4/5

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"The images were heartbreaking: people on fire leaping to their deaths from a hundred stories up. . . Those scenes horrified & sickened me. Then our political leaders came on TV, & I was horrified & sickened again." -- Howard Zinn via @theprogressive
Read: https://t.co/UqjlfpDRke

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FROM THE ARCHIVES
Watch the 2011 tribute by Noam Chomsky, “Honoring Howard Zinn: A Historian Who Made History” with Anthony Arnove.
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“The Biggest Secret —
That we have power —”
—Howard Zinn
August 24, 1922–January 27, 2010

On this anniversary day of Howard Zinn’s birth in 1922, we share updates from his archives and life’s work in the newest https://t.co/AxA1Fe4eZW newsletter:
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Visits with Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky, age 95, was a long-time friend of Howard Zinn. This summer, false rumors of Noam Chomsky’s death surfaced. Historian Vijay Prishad shared updates about his recent visits with Chomsky, now living in Brazil.
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In honor of Bernice Johnson Reagon (Oct. 4, 1942 – July 17, 2024), we share this clip of her singing at the Dedication of the Howard Zinn Room in 2012.
Read more about Johnson Reagon at the SNCC Digital Gateway: https://t.co/NkGP4B6Ddl @SNCCLegacy
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"It would be naive to depend on the Supreme Court to defend the rights of poor people, women, people of color, dissenters of all kinds. Those rights only come alive when citizens organize, protest, demonstrate, strike, boycott, rebel . . ." @ZinnDigital ⬇️
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And learn more in the book "SNCC: The New Abolitionists":
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Did you know Howard Zinn, with Ella Baker, was a co-advisor to SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)? Join this live stream event with @SNCCLegacy & @NAACP celebrating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer happening NOW! More tomorrow!
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Did you know Howard Zinn, with Ella Baker, was a co-advisor to SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee)? Join this live stream event with @SNCCLegacy & @NAACP celebrating the 60th anniversary of Freedom Summer happening NOW! More tomorrow!
https://t.co/DSeZYiKKCt

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1990 #TDIH: a car bomb exploded injuring Earth First! activists Judi Bari & Darryl Cherney. The FBI tried to frame Bari and Cherney for the bombing.
📖Read Howard Zinn's 2001 letter offering to provide expert testimony about FBI’s history of COINTELPRO.
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