Civil rights activist and author Howard Zinn will deliver a lecture titled, “Bringing Democracy Alive,” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 7 in Whitley Auditorium, located on the Elon campus. Sponsored by the Liberal Arts Forum, Zinn’s lecture is free and open to the public.
Zinn is best known as the author of “The People’s History of the United States”, considered an authoritative resource on revisionist history. During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, he joined picket lines and sit-ins and supported the NAACP with his writings. Now a professor of history at Boston University, Zinn contends that the history contained in textbooks is history as told by the world’s conquerors.
Zinn holds a doctorate from Columbia University. He is the author of “The Southern Mystique,” “You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train,” and “The Zinn Reader,” a collection of his essays.