Stepping Stones Memoir of a Life Together

by Lynd, Staughton; Lynd, Alice

• ISBN13: 9780739127506
• ISBN10: 0739127500
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-17
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities, the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of living that they later sought to carry into the larger society. Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children-but both sought to address the social problems of their time through more than their professions.

Author Biography

Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd edited Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians, Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers, and The New Rank and File.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 7
Son of Middletown	p. 7
When I Was Little	p. 16
Friends	p. 23
A Premature New Leftist	p. 29
Music and Dance and Discovering Childhood	p. 35
Story Street	p. 40
Community	p. 45
Macedonia	p. 45
After Macedonia	p. 51
Starfish	p. 59
The Sixties	p. 61
Cooper Square	p. 61
We Shall Overcome	p. 64
A Trip to Hanoi	p. 77
Draft Counseling	p. 84
War Crimes and the End of the Sixties	p. 88
Accompaniment	p. 93
The Idea of "Accompaniment"	p. 93
Doing Oral History Together	p. 99
We Become Lawyers	p. 103
Our Union Makes Us Strong	p. 113
Nicaragua	p. 125
Palestine	p. 133
The Worst of the Worst	p. 141
Mama Bear	p. 141
Lucasville	p. 149
Mr. X	p. 153
The Death Penalty and the Prison System	p. 167
Afterwords	p. 173
"October, October, "	p. 173
Retrospectives	p. 173
A Letter to Martha	p. 180
Happy	p. 180
Selected Bibliography	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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