Lynd, Alice

Alice Lynd was a graduate of Radcliffe College and the author of We Won't Go: Personal Accounts of War Objectors (1968).

From the description of Letter of Alice Lynd, 1969. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 421927611

Staughton Lynd and Alice Niles Lynd, Quakers, authors, lawyers, and activists in the civil rights and peace movements, have worked individually and have collaborated on many labor and pacifist projects. Alice Lynd, draft counsellor, nursery school teacher, and writer, worked with the American Friends Service Committee and directed day care and health center projects in Chicago. Staughton Lynd (b. 1929), historian and community organizer, taught at Spelman College and Yale University. He directed freedom schools during the Mississippi Summer Project (1964) and was chairman of the first march against the Vietnam War in Washington D.C. on April 17, 1965. Later that year he visited Hanoi, North Vietnam. He graduated from law school in 1976, then practiced labor law. In the Youngstown, Ohio, area they helped workers to create a variety of grassroots organizations. After retirement, they became advocates for prisoners who were sentenced to death or confined under supermaximum security conditions.

From the description of Alice Niles Lynd and Staughton Lynd papers, 1965-1995. 1965 (Swarthmore College, Peace Collection). WorldCat record id: 28411817