| Howard Zinn Born: 24-Aug-1922
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Historian, Activist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A People's History of the United States Military service: USAF (1943) Father: Eddie Zinn (waiter)
Mother: Jenny Rabinowitz
Wife: Roslyn Schechter (m. 1944, 2 children)
Son: Jeff (b. 1950)
Daughter: Myla
University: BA, New York University (1951)
University: MA, Columbia University (1952)
University: PhD History, Columbia University (1956)
Scholar: Harvard University
Teacher: Upsala College, East Orange, NJ (1953-56)
Professor: Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (1956-63)
Professor: Boston University (1964-88)
Bill of Rights Defense Committee Advisory Board
Disarm Education Fund National Advisory Board
Fund for Constitutional Government Advisory Board
Jewish Voice for Peace Advisory Board
NAACP
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Pentagon Papers expert witness
Thomas Merton Award 1991
Air Medal
Austrian Ancestry Paternal
Russian Ancestry Maternal
Jewish Ancestry
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
An Unreasonable Man (23-Jan-2006) Himself
Author of books:
A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present (1980)
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (1994, autobiography)
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