{"id":428,"date":"2010-01-28T02:25:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T09:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-09-15T20:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T20:08:54","slug":"howard-zinn-1922-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/howard-zinn-1922-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard Zinn (1922-2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Howard Zinn<\/a> died yesterday.<\/p>\n

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I saw Howard Zinn speak on a couple of occasions. He could best be described as unpretentious and modest. Yet he spoke truth to power based on his considerable experience helping workers organize.<\/p>\n

Zinn was raised in a working class family and fought in World War II as a bombardier. After the war he worked his way through college and earned a doctorate in history. He became an influential civil rights activist and peace activist. He had a deep understanding of society and the skewed distribution of both power and wealth. He wrote the popular book A People’s History of the United States<\/a>. He remained an optimist about human progress to his dieing day.<\/p>\n

Here is a recent interview of Howard Zinn by Bill Moyers done on December 11, 2009.<\/p>\n

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Part 2 of the interview of Howard Zinn by Bill Moyers<\/a>
\nPart 3 of the interview of Howard Zinn by Bill Moyers<\/a><\/p>\n

Howard Zinn is the author of The People Speak<\/a>, a recent documentary with many actors contributing to portray the voices of those who have struggled to improve the foundations of our society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Howard Zinn died yesterday. I saw Howard Zinn speak on a couple of occasions. He could best be described as unpretentious and modest. Yet he spoke truth to power based on his considerable experience helping workers organize. Zinn was raised in a working class family and fought in World War II as a bombardier. After … Continue reading Howard Zinn (1922-2010)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2105,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/2105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanpark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}