OBITUARY FOR DANIEL NORTH, THE HIGHLANDS CURRENT

Dan North--Dan was born in New York City on June 6, 1935. Soon thereafter, his parents, Joseph and Helen North, moved their family to the Mount Airy community in Croton-on-Hudson, NY, joining other socialist and communist writers, artists, and activists like themselves.

Dan stood for social justice at an early age. In his elementary school cafeteria, a bully once told him, “I’m not sitting with any Jews.” Young Danny, Jewish by ancestry but raised in an atheist home, stood up and replied as he walked away, “Then, you’re not sitting with me.” A few years later, he wrote a letter to The New Masses, a paper edited by his father, demanding living wages and benefits for professional athletes. MORE AT Daniel North (1935-2024) – The Current