Hope Boylston and Lynda Tredway - Interview 09-22-2016 - FInal
Channel: Washington, D.C. Lessons of the Sixties
Date: 2019-08-20

Lynda Tredway and Hope Boylston met in the middle 60s when both enrolled as undergraduates at George Washington University. Both had a strong interest in politics, Lynda influenced by John Kennedy’s call to action and Hope planning to study anthropology and see the world to “escape her privileged life.” A life-long friendship developed from their shared experience as roommates, activists, mothers and educators, with Hope’s human rights work around Chile informing her later teaching career in Pennsylvania, and Lynda’s teaching experience and expertise making her a national authority on public secondary education, training and professional development. Hope authored a book, “Hoy Locos,” about her time in Chile. Lynda, now retired from teaching at Berkeley and back in DC, is an accomplished artist and is currently working on an art project that addresses lynching. In this video, they talk about their political development that began in the streets of D.C. and as activists in the University.