Admirable Radical
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In this first full-length study of Lynd's activist career, author Carl Mirra charts the development of the New Left and traces Lynd's journey into the southern civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements during the 1960s. He details Lynd's service as a coordinator of the Mississippi Freedom Schools, his famous and controversial peace mission to Hanoi with Tom Hayden, his turbulent academic career, and the legendary attempt by the Radical Historians' Caucus within the American Historical Association to elect him AHA president. The book concludes with Lynd's move in the 1970s to Niles, Ohio, where he assisted in the struggle to keep the steel mills open and where he works as a labor lawyer today.
The Admirable Radical is an important contribution to the study of social history and will interest both social and intellectual historians.
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- Intro
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword by Howard Zinn
- Introduction: If Not Now, When? Lynd's Half-Century Journey for Social Change in the United States
- 1. Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960
- 2. Historical Protagonist/Professional Historian: Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph.D.
- 3. It Is a Blessed Community: Civil Rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer
- 4. Lynd Not Lyndon: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement Confronts the Establishment
- 5. Mission to Hanoi: Knocking on the Other Side's Door
- 6. Blacklisted: Academe Confronts a Radical Historian
- 7. Guerrilla Historians Combat the American Historical Association
- 8. Still Carrying the Banner: Life after the Sixties
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
