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You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train Howard Zinn You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train A Personal History of Our Times To Roslyn, for everything BEACON PRESS 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892 www.beacon.org Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations. © 1994, 2002 by Howard Zinn All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America The lines from “Incident” are reprinted from Color, by Countee Cullen, copyright © 1925 by Harper & Brothers, renewed 1953 by Ida M. Cullen, by permission of GRM Associates, Inc., agents for the Estate of Ida M. Cullen; the lines from “i sing of Olaf glad and big” and “my father moved through dooms of love” are reprinted from Complete Poems: 1904–1962, by E.E. Cummings, edited by George J. Firmage, by permission of Liveright Publishing Corporation, copyright © 1931, 1940, 1959, 1968, 1991 by the Trustees for the E.E. Cummings Trust; the lines from “Once” in Once, copyright © 1968 by Alice Walker, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace and Company. 15 14 13 12 11 10 13 12 11 10 9 8 Text design by Daniel Ochsner Composition by Wilsted & Taylor This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the uncoated paper ANSI/NISO specifications for permanence as revised in 1992. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Zinn, Howard. You can’t be neutral on a moving train : a personal history of our times / Howard Zinn. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8070-7127-4 (paper) 1. Zinn, Howard, [data]. 2. Historians—United States—Biography. 3. United States—History—1945– —Philosophy. I. Title. E175.5Z25A3 1994 973'.07202—dc20 94-8000 C O N T E N T S Preface 2002 Introduction: The Question Period in Kalamazoo PART ONE: The South and the Movement 1. Going South: Spelman College 2. “Young Ladies Who Can Picket” 3. “A President Is Like a Gardener” 4. “My Name Is Freedom”: Albany, Georgia 5. Selma, Alabama 6. “I’ll Be Here”: Mississippi PART TWO: War 7. A Veteran against War 8. “Sometimes to Be Silent Is to Lie”: Vietnam 9. The Last TeachIn 10. “Our Apologies, Good Friends, for the Fracture of Good Order” PART THREE: Scenes and Changes 11. In Jail: “The World Is Topsy-Turvy” 12. In Court: “The Heart of the Matter” 13. Growing Up Class-Conscious 14. A Yellow Rubber Chicken: Battles at Boston University 15. The Possibility of Hope Acknowledgments Index
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