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 times through more than their professions. After being
involved in the Southern civil rights movement and the movement
against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, both Staughton and Alice
became lawyers. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to
create a variety of rank-and-file organizations. After retirement,
they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or
confined under supermaximum security conditions. Through trips to
Central America in the 1980s, Staughton and Alice became familiar with
the concept of “accompaniment.” To them, accompaniment means
placing themselves at the side of the poor and oppressed, not as
dispensers of charity or as guilty fugitives from the middle class,
but as equals in a joint process to which each person brings an
essential kind of expertise. Throughout, the Lynds, who became Quakers
in the early 1960s, have been committed to nonviolence. Their story
will encourage young people seeking lives of public service in the
cause of creating a better world.
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ISBN
9780739134603
Publisert
2012
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Lexington Books
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Engelsk
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Product format
Digital bok
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