TY - GEN T1 - Working for peace and justice : memoirs of an activist intellectual T2 - Legacies of war. A1 - Wittner, Lawrence S. LA - English PP - Knoxville PB - University of Tennessee Press YR - 2012 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn779828655 AB - A longtime agitator against war and social injustice, Lawrence Wittner has been tear-gassed, threatened by police with drawn guns, charged by soldiers with fixed bayonets, spied upon by the U.S. government, arrested, and purged from his job for political -reasons. To say that this teacher-historian-activist has led an interesting life is a considerable understatement. In this absorbing memoir, Wittner traces the dramatic course of a life and career that took him from a Brooklyn boyhood in the 1940s and '50s to an education at Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin to the front lines of peace activism, the fight for racial equality, and the struggles of the labor movement. He details his family background, which included the bloody anti-Semitic pogroms of late-nineteenth-century Eastern Europe, and chronicles his long teaching career, which comprised positions at a small black college in Virginia, an elite women's liberal arts college north of New York City, and finally a permanent home at the Albany campus of the State University of New York. Throughout, he packs the narrative with colorful vignettes describing such activities as fighting racism in Louisiana and Mississippi during the early 1960s, collaborating with peace-oriented intellectuals in Gorbachev's Soviet Union, and leading thousands of antinuclear demonstrators through the streets of Hiroshima. As the book also reveals, Wittner's work as an activist was matched by scholarly achievements that made him one of the world's foremost authorities on the history of the peace and nuclear disarmament movements--a research specialty that led to revealing encounters with such diverse figures as Norman Thomas, the Unabomber, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Caspar Weinberger, and David Horowitz. A tenured professor and renowned author who has nevertheless lived in tension with the broader currents of his society, Lawrence Wittner tells an engaging personal story that includes some of the most turbulent and significant events of recent history. OP - 285 CN - CT275 .W58 2012eb SN - 9781572338951 SN - 1572338954 SN - 1280125098 SN - 9781280125096 SN - 9786613528957 SN - 6613528951 SN - 1572338571 SN - 9781572338579 KW - Wittner, Lawrence S. KW - State University of New York at Albany : Faculty : Biography. KW - State University of New York at Albany KW - Intellectuals : United States : Biography. KW - Political activists : United States : Biography. KW - Pacifists : United States : Biography. KW - Scholars : United States : Biography. KW - Historians : United States : Biography. KW - Student movements : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Peace movements : History : 20th century. KW - Social justice : History : 20th century. KW - Intellectuels : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Activistes : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Pacifistes : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Savants : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Historiens : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Mouvements étudiants : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Mouvements pacifistes : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Justice sociale : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Social Classes. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : General. KW - Historians KW - Intellectuals KW - Pacifists KW - Peace movements KW - Political activists KW - Scholars KW - Social justice KW - Student movements KW - Universities and colleges : Faculty KW - United States KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs KW - 1900-1999 KW - Autobiography KW - autobiographies (literary genre) KW - Autobiographies KW - Biographies KW - History KW - Autobiographies. ER -