Tolstoy College
From 1969 to the mid 1980s, Haynie was the academic leader of Tolstoy College, also known as College F, which sponsored courses on left politics and social justice. Prior to Buffalo, he was active in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, working as a Field Director to register Black voters in Tennessee and Mississippi. Haynie left his doctoral studies in mathematics and engineering research at Cornell University to join the movement.
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