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Howard Zinn — Part 1

249 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Howard Zinn · 243 pages OCR'd
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AT 100-5643 The Jume 20, 1954 edition of the San Diego Evening Tribune stated that the Third District Court Of Appeals on that date had unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the discharge of STEINMETZ from San Diego State Collegé. He was fired for refusing to say whether he was or had been a Communist. said that he had me RRY C, STEINMETZ, b6 a Professor at Morehouse College, about a year ago at the home bIC of RD ZINN, a professor of History at Spelman College, said the occasion was the ZINNS were giving a coffee social and ahowt one dozen or so people were present from the . aerate University Center which includes Spelman and Morehouse Colleges. T-1 om December 4, 1962 advised that the subject had written & report on the Albany , Georgia racial situation for the Southern Regional Coumcil, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia. T-1 said that this report was entitled “Albany, A Study in National Responsibility." It was released by Southern Regional Council in November, 1962 and indicates that ZINN was present during — the Albany racial demonstrations in a reporter capacity. A news article in the Atlanta uC Onee vances newspaper, dated April 14, 1962, titled "¢ | Rigi Gs Study Strategy Here" by FRED POWLEDGE related some of the events taking place at the ammual conference of SNCC, which was held in Atlanta, Georgia from April 12-14, 1963.. The . article stated that ahout 300 youmg people, one-third of them white, attended the three day conference, The article described a highlight of the April L3th session as a speeeh givem by the subject. According to the article, he told the group that the answer to problems of discrimimation and conservatism in politics cannot be directly solved through the ballot. The subject claimed the answer was to create centers of power outside the formal structure of govermment and to. use these centers of power to exert pressure- -- on the government, The subject described SNCC as this kind of ~ center of power, The subject, according to the article, criticized =e
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