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Howard Zinn — Part 1
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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
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