In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller A People's History of the United States) was a professor of history at Spelman during this era and served as an adviser to the Atlanta sit-in movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zinn mentored many of Spelman's students fighting for civil rights at the time,…mehr
In the 1960s, students of Spelman College, a black liberal arts college for women, were drawn into historic civil rights protests occurring across Atlanta, leading to the arrest of some for participating in sit-ins in the local community. A young Howard Zinn (future author of the worldwide best seller A People's History of the United States) was a professor of history at Spelman during this era and served as an adviser to the Atlanta sit-in movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Zinn mentored many of Spelman's students fighting for civil rights at the time, including Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. As a key facilitator of the Spelman student movement, Zinn supported students who challenged and criticized the campus's paternalistic social restrictions, even when this led to conflicts with the Spelman administration. Zinn's involvement with the Atlanta student movement and his closeness to Spelman's leading student and faculty activists gave him an insider's view of that movement and of the political and intellectual world of Spelman, Atlanta University, and the SNCC. Robert Cohen presents a thorough historical overview as well as an entrée to Zinn's diary. One of the most extensive records of the political climate on a historically black college in 1960s America, Zinn's diary offers an in-depth view. It is a fascinating historical document of the free speech, academic freedom, and student rights battles that rocked Spelman and led to Zinn's dismissal from the college in 1963 for supporting the student movement.
Becoming an editor for CreateTank press was a natural stop for Dr. Robert F. Cohen in his career trajectory. He was a writing instructor for years at Columbia University and Hostos Community College, and the expectations he established for his students reflected the training he had received in graduate studies in French language and literature, where textual analysis and an ardent respect for a proper balance between form and content were a given. Although his students may have found it quite a challenge to follow his "vision," most of them learned what he fundamentally sought to teach them in the first place -to think logically - and some of them even moved on to become successful writers in their own right. Dr. Cohen has worked as the chief editor for CreateTank press since its inception and, coincidentally, since his official retirement from the academic world. Thus far, through his efforts, impressive works of art have seen the light of day: Star Witness (by Orlando Ferrand, 2018), Bronx Rhapsody (by Maria Meli, 2020), and Such a Dangerous Silence (by Kim Sanabria, 2023), the English translation of Un si dangereux silence (French original by Harry Koumrouyan).Dr. Cohen received his academic degrees from Queens College (CUNY) in 1966 (B.A. magna cum laude in French, with election into Phi Beta Kappa), from Columbia University in 1968 (M.A. in French and Romance Philology), and from Harvard University in 1975 (Ph.D. in French). When called upon, he remains to this day a teacher, writer, editor, translator, and an international communications facilitator. For him, the creative life - honoring it and living it to the fullest - is where all his hopes and dreams are nurtured.
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