Michigan State University African Studies Director David Wiley and librarian Peter Limb interview H. Lynn Jondahl on his education, ministerial and political career, anti-apatheid activties, and student activism at MSU

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H. Lynn Jondahl talks about growing up in Iowa, becoming an ordained minister in 1962 after graduating from the Yale Divinity School and coming to East Lansing in 1966 to develop a campus ministry program. He says that he became a campus activist and was eventuallyelected to the Michigan State House in 1972. Jondahl comments on student activism at MSU, freedom of expression,and protests against CIA recruitment on campus and the Vietnam War. He also talks about his efforts to persuade MSU and the State of Michigan to divest from South Africa in protest of Apartheid, and introducing anti-apartheid legislation. Interviewed by David Wiley, Professor of Sociology and Director of the MSU African Studies Center. Part of the African Studies Interview Series sponsored by the MSU Libraries and the African Studies Center.

Date Issued:

2005-02-04T00:00:00Z

Data Provider:

Michigan State University. Libraries

Collection:

G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection

Place:

Michigan, East Lansing, and South Africa

Subject Topic:

Career in church work, Political activity, Student movements, Anti-apartheid movements, and Disinvestment

Subject Name:

Jondahl, Lynn, Jondahl, Lynn, and Jondahl, Lynn

Subject Genre:

Interviews

Language:

English

Rights:

In Copyright

URL:

https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m58c9r43z