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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Howard Zinn
Born: August 24, 1922
Died: January 27, 2010 (aged 87)
Bio: Howard Zinn was an American historian, playwright, and social activist. He was a political science professor at Boston University. Zinn wrote more than twenty books, including his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United States.
Known for:
- A People's History of the United States (1980)
- You can't be neutral on a moving train (1994)
- A People's History of American Empire (2008)
- Marx in Soho (1999)
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