Stepping Stones Memoir of a Life Together

Stepping Stones is a joint memoir by two longtime participants in movements for social change in the United States. Staughton and Alice Lynd have worked for racial equality, against war, with workers and prisoners, and against the death penalty. Coming from similar ethical backgrounds but with very different personalities, the Lynds spent three years in an intentional community in northeast Georgia during the 1950s. There they experienced a way of living that they later sought to carry into the larger society. Both were educated to be teachers-Staughton as a professor of history and Alice as a teacher of preschool children-but both sought to address the social problems of their time through more than their professions.

Alice Lynd and Staughton Lynd edited Nonviolence in America: A Documentary History, Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians, Rank and File: Personal Histories by Working-Class Organizers, and The New Rank and File.