cover image: 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

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

2005

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.
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Authors

Jondahl, Lynn

Collection
G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Contributor
Wiley, David 1935 Limb, Peter Michigan State University. African Studies Center Vincent Voice Library
Place Discussed
Michigan East Lansing South Africa
Provider
Michigan Service Hub
Published in
South Africa
Rights
In Copyright
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/4e3906d6f497bec542427bd222278203

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