Staughton Lynd
Staughton Lynd served as director of Freedom Schools in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964. In April 1965, he chaired the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington DC. In August 1965, he was arrested together with Bob Moses and David Dellinger at the Assembly of Unrepresented People in Washington DC, where demonstrators sought to declare peace with the people of Vietnam on the steps of the Capitol. In December 1965, Staughton along with Tom Hayden and Herbert Aptheker made a controversial trip to Hanoi, in hope of clarifying the peace terms of the Vietnamese government and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam.
Because of his advocacy and practice of civil disobedience, Lynd was unable to continue as a full-time history teacher. The history departments at five Chicago-area universities offered him positions, only to have the offers negatived by the school administrations. In 1976, Staughton became a lawyer and until his retirement at the end of 1996 worked for Legal Services in Youngstown, Ohio.
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Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, 2nd ed.
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From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
Unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
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Moral Injury and Nonviolent Resistance: Breaking the Cycle of Violence in the Military and Behind Bars
Solidarity Unionism: Rebuilding the Labor Movement from Below, Second Edition
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.
Accompanying: Pathways to Social Change
Accompanying distinguishes two strategies of social change, "organizing" and "accompaniment," and applies them to five social movements.
Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity While Staying Clear of the Law (2nd Edition)
A guerrilla legal handbook for workers in a precarious global economy.
Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, 2nd ed.
A powerful story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history, with a foreword by Mumia Abu-Jamal.
From Here to There: The Staughton Lynd Reader
Unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd.
Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical History
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers the reader an encounter between two generations and two traditions.