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Coming of Age (1940–1962)
Howard Sodja discusses the major childhood influences that shape his adult life. Several incidents while attending Catholic high school, such as nearly being expelled for reading banned books by Thomas Huxley and Darwin and befriending a leftist Hungarian refugee, plant the first seeds of doubt regarding religious dogma and US patriotism. Later in college, these seeds sprout as a plethora of new philosophies, historical perspectives, and scientific findings engulf him. Gravitating towards similarly disenchanted classmates, the author befriends beatnik, leftist, and gay students with whom he explores his nascent sexuality, drugs, and alternative lifestyles. He becomes friends with the first African-American student at the University of Miami, and is thrust into civil rights clashes at local restaurants. While working for Cuba’s Cubana Airline, he witnesses incidents that belie the US media’s version of events following the 1959 Cuban revolution. During his senior year, the author and his college comrades form the Miami chapter of the Young People’s Socialist League, which joins a community-based antiwar group in 1962 to organize Miami’s first antinuclear protest.
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