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

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 and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating C...