History Lessons

<p>History Lessons traces Dan Lynn Watt’s journey through childhood in New York during the McCarthy era. He marched on May Day with his war hero father and activist mother chanting “We don’t want another war!” and “Jim Crow must go!” At camp he sang about world peace freedom and workers’ rights. At school he attempted to hide his family’s politics. He takes you inside family struggles against racism and political repression. Disillusioned with communism by the 1960s he became a civil rights and antiwar activist.</p>