Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist intellectual and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote over 20 books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States in 1980. In 2007, he published a version of it for younger readers, A Young People's History of the United States.
Zinn in 2009
Howard Zinn speaking at Marlboro College February 2004
Occupy Oakland, November 12, 2011, Howard Zinn quotation
Zinn at Pathfinder Book Store, Los Angeles, August 2000
Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia. It is a founding member of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman awarded its first college degrees in 1901 and is the oldest private historically Black liberal arts institution for women.
Harriet E. Giles and Sophia B. Packard founded Spelman College
Spelman College c. 1910
Spelman College sign outside campus gates
Museum of Fine Art