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Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run

May 18, 2026·44 min·7-min readnarrativehistory
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Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s memoir, Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, recounts his upbringing as the child of Weather Underground leaders Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, exploring the emotional and moral contradictions of revolutionary parenthood and the legacy of radical resistance in Amer

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Zayd Ayers Dohrn

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Zayd Ayers DohrnBernardine DohrnBill AyersTerry GrossFred HamptonAssata ShakurChesa Boudin

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Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young, A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Undergroundby Zayd Ayers Dohrn

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American HistoryCivil Rights HistoryCriminal JusticeRacial JusticeTrue CrimeUs Politics

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