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Journal Article
Conversations with Staughton and Alice Lynd
2021
Overview
Alice and Staughton Lynd met each other at Harvard Summer School in 1950. They married in 1951 and moved to a utopian community in Georgia in 1954. From 1961 to 1964 the Lynds lived on the campus of Spelman College, a college for African American women in Atlanta. There Staughton taught history in a department headed by Howard Zinn, who became a close friend. In summer 1964, Staughton coordinated \"freedom schools\" in Mississippi Summer. Beginning in 1965, Alice took up the practice of counseling young men who faced difficult decisions when called for military service. She published accounts of war objecters in a book entitled We Won't G. Husband and wife both went to law school and became lawyers. They worked together at Northeast Ohio Legal Services until their retirement in 1996, specializing in employment law. Here, the works of Alice and Staughton are detailed.
