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== Early career == After earning his doctorate in 1958 at age 24, Flynn taught at [[Eastern Kentucky University]] in [[Richmond, Kentucky]], where he chaired the local chapter of the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE), a civil rights organisation in the US South.{{r|Stuff|SA|:0}} He was reprimanded by the mayor of Richmond and the university for his anti-segregation activism, and removed as the university's track coach.{{r|Gibb}} In 1961, he left Kentucky to teach at the [[University of Wisconsin-Whitewater]], followed by [[Lake Forest College]] in [[Chicago]],{{r|NYT}} from which he was fired for giving a lecture on [[social medicine]], working as a peace activist, and being a member of the Socialist Party.{{r|UO}} By Flynn's own account, in early 1960s America he was consistently fired for his [[social democratic]] politics.<ref name="whereliberals">{{cite book |last=Flynn |first=James R. |title=Where Have All the Liberals Gone?: Race, Class, and Ideals in America |location=Cambridge, UK and New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-521-49431-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/wherehavealllibe00flyn/page/278/mode/2up |page=278}}</ref> Accordingly, in 1963, aged 29, he emigrated with his family to New Zealand, where he taught at the [[University of Canterbury]] in [[Christchurch]] and remained active (from afar) in the American civil rights movement.{{r|Wilby|Critic|SA}} In New Zealand Flynn continued to campaign for left-wing causes, and advised [[New Zealand Labour Party|Labour]] Prime Minister [[Norman Kirk]] on [[foreign policy]]. He was a member of the anti-war [[National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam|Committee on Vietnam]] and gave lectures against [[nuclear proliferation]].{{r|NYT}} In 1967, he joined the [[University of Otago]] in [[Dunedin]] as Foundation Professor of Political Studies and head of the university's politics department.{{r|Gibb|Stuff}} In 1973, Flynn published ''Humanism and Ideology: An Aristotelian View''.{{r|UO}}
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