Stepping Stones: Memoir of a Life Together by Staughton Lynd

By Staughton Lynd

Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by way of longtime contributors in pursuits for social swap within the usa. Staughton and Alice Lynd have labored for racial equality, opposed to conflict, with employees and prisoners, and opposed to the demise penalty. Coming from comparable moral backgrounds yet with very assorted personalities, the Lynds spent 3 years in an intentional neighborhood in Northeast Georgia in the course of the Nineteen Fifties. There they skilled a manner of residing that they later sought to hold into the bigger society. either have been knowledgeable to be teachers―Staughton as a professor of heritage and Alice as a instructor of preschool young ones. yet either sought to handle the social difficulties in their occasions via greater than their professions.

After being considering the Southern civil rights move and the move opposed to the battle in Vietnam within the Nineteen Sixties, either Staughton and Alice grew to become legal professionals. within the Youngstown, Ohio, sector they helped staff to create various rank-and-file agencies. After retirement, they turned advocates for prisoners who have been sentenced to demise or limited below supermaximum protection stipulations. via journeys to critical the USA within the Eighties, Staughton and Alice grew to become acquainted with the idea that of “accompaniment.” To them, accompaniment capacity putting themselves in conjunction with the bad and oppressed, now not as dispensers of charity or as accountable fugitives from the center category, yet as equals in a joint technique to which every individual brings a necessary type of services. all through, the Lynds, who grew to become Quakers within the early Nineteen Sixties, were devoted to nonviolence. Their tale will inspire kids looking lives of public carrier within the explanation for making a higher world.

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