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Sidney Lens was born on 12 January, 1912, is an American labor leader and author. Discover Sidney Lens's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?
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Sidney Lens Height, Weight & Measurements
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Sidney Lens Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sidney Lens worth at the age of 74 years old? Sidney Lens’s income source is mostly from being a successful author. He is from . We have estimated Sidney Lens's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Sidney Lens (January 12, 1912 – June 18, 1986), also known by his birth name Sidney Okun, was an American labor leader, political activist, and author, best known for his 1977 book, The Day Before Doomsday, which warns of the prospect of nuclear annihilation.
Sidney Lens was born Sidney Okun on January 12, 1912, in Newark, New Jersey to Charles and Sophie Okun, Jewish immigrants from Russia who had arrived in the United States in 1907.
His father, who was a pharmacist, died when Lens was three years old, and he was raised by his single mother who worked long hours in the New York City garment industry.
Lens changed his name in the early 1930s.
Formerly a member of Hugo Oehler's Revolutionary Workers League, Lens was active in retail worker unions in Chicago and in the anti-war movement during the Vietnam War.
Among those he was influenced by was the Dutch-American pacifist A.J. Muste.
Lens married Chicago public school teacher and fellow progressive Shirley Rubin in 1946.
In 1967, he was among more than 500 writers and editors who signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse to pay the 10% Vietnam War Tax surcharge proposed by president Johnson.
Lens was a contributor to The Progressive and wrote more than twenty books.
Along with his 1977 book The Day Before Doomsday which warned of the dangers of nuclear war, Lens also wrote a history of U.S. intervention abroad, The Forging of the American Empire, originally published in 1974 and republished in 2003 by Haymarket Books with a new introduction by Howard Zinn; and an autobiography, Unrepentant Radical.
He ran for public office three times, culminating in 1980 when he was the Citizens Party (United States) candidate for United States Senate in Illinois.
Lens died from melanoma in Chicago on June 18, 1986.
His archives are preserved by the Chicago History Museum Research Center.
The Sidney Lens Photograph Collection is held in the University Library at California State University, Northridge.
This collection consists of photographs taken by Sidney Lens, who is depicted in some of the images.
Other papers and books related to the legacy of Sidney Lens are also held at the CSUN University Library Special Collections and Archives.
