Academic Freedom: Collaboration and Resistance

The 23rd T. B. Davie Memorial Lecture
Delivered in the University of Cape Town on July 23, 1982
by Howard Zinn

Notes

1. Donald Woods, Biko, Padington Press, New York & London, 1978.

2. Another instance is the execution of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, in a raid by Chicago police on his apartment, in December, 1969. It turned out later that the FBI was also involved in the planning of the raid. See Book III, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities, US Senate, 94:2, p223.

3. E. Neame, The History of Apartheid, London House & Maxwell, New York, 1963.

4. Donald Woods, op cit.

5. This is from the novel by Albert Camus, The Plague.

6. I discuss my experiences at Spelman College, and other issues of race, in my book The Southern Mystique, Alfred Knopf, New York, 1964.

7. The history of that reconciliation goes back to the politics of the year 1877, which is analyzed in C. Vann Woodward, Reunion and Reaction

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Reprinted with the kind permission of Dr. Howard Zinn, to whom we owe our thanks for pointing the way out of history.