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Howard Machtinger
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Howard Norton Machtinger (born April 26, 1946) is a former director of Carolina Teaching Fellows, a student teacher scholarship program at the

Weatherman
.

Early education and activism

Howard ("Howie") Machtinger was born in the Bronx, New York, on April 23, 1946.

Polish-Jewish immigrants.[3] His siblings included Barbara, Evelyn and Leonard.[3] Ted Gold was a cousin; his mother Ruth Migden was the sister of Yetta Migden.[citation needed] His uncle (on his mother's side) was economist Herbert E. Klarman.[citation needed
]

Machtinger earned his baccalaureate degree cum laude in Sociology and English from

Marlene Dixon's contract with the Sociology department. Students believed the department voted her out because she was a woman with politically radical views.[10]

Weatherman

Machtinger was one of the founding members of Weatherman (later known as the Weather Underground), an organization that formed as a result of the SDS split in June 1969.[11] He was a part of the

John Jacobs, Terry Robbins, Jim Mellen, Karin Ashley, Gerry Long, and Steve Tappis.[14] Machtinger participated in the Days of Rage and was present at the Flint, Michigan "War Council" in December 1969. He was among the Weathermen who eventually went underground.[1]

Indictment and life underground

On April 2, 1970, Machtinger was indicted with twelve other Weatherman members on charges of conspiracy and violation of the Federal Antiriot Act during the Days of Rage. He was accused of leading Days of Rage but the charges were dismissed as electronic surveillance had not been court-ordered.[9] Machtinger was indicted again on July 24, 1970. Along with ten other members of Weather, Machtinger was charged with conspiring to bomb the Detroit Police Officers Association Building.[9] He went underground in the early 1970s and was arrested on East 86th Street in New York on September 19, 1973. [15] Machtinger was released on bail, and subsequently went back underground.[1] Upon averting jail time, Machtinger released a statement to the press explaining his desire to remain underground and to continue working for Weather's Cause.[16] In his letter, written October 16, 1973, Machtinger explores the dilemma of being a revolutionary fugitive in the following excerpt:

What should I do? Go to jail and do time--for how long?...Do my political work behind steel bars, get out and figure a new way to integrate myself in the revolution? Or, if I had the opportunity, return to what I had been doing: trying to build secret--from the state power--bases of strength as one means of aiding in the overthrow of the imperialist, sexist, racist state.[17]

Resurfacing and recent history

Machtinger surrendered in Criminal Court on May 11, 1978.

Seattle Central Community College in 1981.[19][20] He taught high school history from 1993 until he received his master's degree in history from San Francisco State University in 1996.[21] Machtinger's 1995 dissertation, titled Clearing Away the Debris : New Left Radicalism in 1960s America, further explores the New Left movement of the 1960s. He served on the planning committee for East Chapel Hill High School from 1995 to 1996 [20] and is a former member of the North Carolina Humanities Council Forum Speakers.[19] In 1998, Machtinger helped organize a visit of South African educators and students to the Triangle area to promote cross-cultural communication and understanding of educational issues.[20] He is an activist for educational reform and wrote two articles in 2007 for the High School Journal, titled "After the Flood: The Impact of Katrina on Education in New Orleans" and "What Do We Know about High Poverty Schools? Summary of the High Poverty Schools Conference at Chapel Hill." Machtinger worked for the School of Education at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
from July 19, 1999, to June 30, 2006.

Bibliography

Notes

  1. ^ a b c (FBI, 155)
  2. ^ Citation needed; my family, descended from the sister of Yetta’s father (Joe) is sure Yetta’s maiden name was Klarman.
  3. ^ a b "Barbara Machtinger Obituary (1952 - 2017) the Herald Sun". Legacy.com.
  4. ^ (Slate 3)
  5. ^ "Columbia Spectator 18 December 1967 — Columbia Spectator". spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  6. ^ "Jonah Raskin : INTERVIEW | Howard Machtinger on the old-yet-never-forgotten American War in Vietnam". The Rag Blog. 2014-06-05. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  7. ^ (FBI, 7)
  8. ^ (Judiciary Committee, 85)
  9. ^ a b c (Judiciary Committee, 86)
  10. ^ Janson, 18
  11. ^ (Jacobs, 147)
  12. ^ (Jacobs, H. 344)
  13. ^ (Jacobs, 25)
  14. ^ Ayers et al., 1.
  15. ^ "Suspected SDS leader is arrested", Chicago Tribune, September 19, 1973, p. 1A-24
  16. ^ (Berger, 147)
  17. ^ Raskin, 88
  18. ^ Branegan, D5
  19. ^ a b (Slate, 2)
  20. ^ a b c UNC Institute of African American Research
  21. ^ (Slate,2)

References

  • Ayers, Bill, et al. "You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows." New Left Notes, July 18, 1969. Retrieved from www.sds-1960s.org November 2008.
  • Berger, Dan. Outlaws of America. (AK Press, 2006).
  • Branegan, Jay. "Ex-Radical Gives Up to Face Mob Charges." Chicago Tribune, May 12, 1978.
  • Jacobs, Harold. Weatherman. (Ramparts Press, 1970).
  • Jacobs, Ron. The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground. (New York: Verso, 1997)
  • Janson, Donald. "300 Stage Sit-In at the U. of Chicago: Refusal to Rehire Teacher of Sociology Protested." New York Times. January 31, 1969.
  • FBI Files: Weather Underground Organization (Weathermen) Retrieved from http://foia.fbi.gov November 15, 2008.
  • Raskin, Jonah. The Weather Eye; Communiques from the Weather Underground May 1970-May 1974. Union Square Press, 1974.
  • "Teaching Fellows to Work in Schools and Communities." The Carolina Slate. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. (Summer/Fall 1999).
  • The Weather Underground: report of the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session. January 1975.
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Institute of African American Research. http://www.unc.edu/iaar/YR/yr2005/yr2005present3.htm
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