Sandra Dressler shared Zinn Education Projects photo. On Jan. 18, 1968, at a Women Doers Luncheon meeting focusing on crime and juvenile delinquency, Kitt was asked her opinion and she stated that young Americans were angry because their parents are angry . . . because there is a war going on that they dont understand . . . You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. The retaliation for her honest critique of the war was so swift and strong that within hours her career in the U.S. was ruined for 10 years. The C.I.A. watched and tried to undermine her. (See huff.to/1jcXTUA) She said she never regretted the stand she took that day, but learned that ...if you tell the truth – in a country that says youre entitled to tell the truth – you get your face slapped and you get put out of work. Here are lessons for teaching outside the textbook about the Vietnam War: zinnedproject.org/posts/7325 Photo from LBJ Library [Digital ID# C8218-8] President Lyndon Johnson with Eartha Kitt at on 1/18/68 in the White House Family Dining Room. On Jan. 18, 1968, at a Women Doers Luncheon meeting focusing on crime and juvenile delinquency, Kitt was asked her opinion and she stated that young Americans were angry because their parents are angry . . . because there is a war going on that they dont understand . . . You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. The retaliation for her honest critique of the war was so swift and strong that within hours her career in the U.S. was ruined for 10 years. The C.I.A. watched and tried to undermine her. (See huff.to/1jcXTUA) She said she never regretted the stand she took that day, but learned that ...if you tell the truth – in a country that says youre entitled to tell the truth – you get your face slapped and you get put out of work. Here are lessons for teaching outside the textbook about the Vietnam War: zinnedproject.org/posts/7325 Photo from LBJ Library [Digital ID# C8218-8] President Lyndon Johnson with Eartha Kitt at on 1/18/68 in the White House Family Dining Room.
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