Howard Zinn

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

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Patricia Marx sits down with historian Howard Zinn to discuss his recent books, "The New Abolitionist" and "The Southern Mystique." Zinn describes his recent experiences teaching at Spellman College in Atlanta, Georgia from 1956 to 1963, and his subsequent observations on racial prejudice in the Southern United States.

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