Document Type
Commentary
Abstract
Tim Hall, founder and editor Struggle: A Magazine of Proletarian Revolutionary Literature, discusses his own experiences and what led to the founding of the magazine.
[First paragraph]
I grew up in a semi-rural working-class area east of Cleveland, on the shores of Lake Erie, one of three children in a family with strong abolitionist, feminist, literary and musical traditions. I was an outdoors boy, a fisherman, hunter and boat-builder, played football and ran track, and attended Cornell on a scholarship, where I edited the literary magazine, won several literary prizes, had a play produced and narrowly avoided flunking out. Beginning in 1964 I went south in the civil rights movement, where my immersion in the struggle of black sharecroppers changed me into a life-long activist.
Repository Citation
Hall, Tim. "Ethos and History." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 10, no. 3, 2010, pp. 1–3. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol10/iss3/14