Andrej Grubacic, editor of From Here To There: The Staughton Lynd Reader and co-author of Wobblies and Zapatistas, presents some of the key themes in the life's work of legendary activist historian Staughton Lynd. Lynd taught history at Spelman College and Yale in the 1960s and coordinated the hugely successful Freedom Schools during the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964. After moving to New Haven, Lynd became a spokesperson for opponents of the Vietnam War. As a result of these activities, Lynd was blacklisted as a university professor and he and his wife became lawyers. Since 1976 they have lived in Youngstown, Ohio, working with and representing local victims of deindustrialization, and prisoners confined at Ohio's first  super-maximum security prison.

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