In this morning’s NY Times, I found the obituary of a man I wish I’d known about earlier. Straughton Lynd was “a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led #antiwar protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest”.

In a local connection (for me), he taught at #Spelman College in #Atlanta and one of his students was Alice Walker.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/staughton-lynd-dead.html

In this morning’s NY Times, I found the obituary of a man I wish I’d known about earlier. Straughton Lynd was “a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, led #antiwar protests in Washington and fought for labor rights in the industrial Midwest”.

In a local connection (for me), he taught at #Spelman College in #Atlanta and one of his students was Alice Walker.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/18/us/staughton-lynd-dead.html

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