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Howard Zinn 1922-2010. A Great and Wonderful Man

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

I knew Howard through my friendship with Tiyo Attallah Salah-El, sentenced to life in PA. Howard was a distance learning history teacher of Tiyo's more than 30 years ago. When Tiyo and I became friends, I met Howard. Howard and his wife Roz Zinn remained friends of Tiyo's for all these years. When I arranged to have Tiyo's papers archived at DuBois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Howard sent me three huge boxes of letters, family photos of Tiyo, postcards, music, birthday cards he had received from Tiyo over the years. They are now archived at UMass. http://www.library.umass.edu/spcoll/ead/mums590.pdf. Howard and his brother Jerry were instrumental in publishing Tiyo's autobiography. Just a few weeks ago, Tiyo could not reach Howard at a prearranged time for a phone call, Tiyo called me and asked that I call Howard to arrange another time for a call...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 27, 2010 (boomark / email).