The admirable radical : Staughton Lynd and Cold War dissent, 1945-1970 /
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to rem...
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: If not now, when? Lynd's half-century journey for social change in the United States
- Premature New Leftist, 1945-1960
- Historical protagonist/professional historian : Spelman, Columbia, and a Ph. D.
- It is a blessed community : civil rights and Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Lynd not Lyndon : the anti-Vietnam War movement confronts the establishment
- Mission to Hanoi : knocking on the other side's door
- Blacklisted : academe confronts a radical historian
- Guerrilla historians combat the American Historical Association
- Still carrying the banner : life after the sixties.
