There were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
Bill AyersNow teach-ins are fairly common or they become common place. But in 1965, the Students for Democratic Society in Ann Harbor organized the first teach-in. The way it happened was that we were advocating for a strike that we advocated that the faculty should strike in solidarity with the Vietnamese struggle.
Bill AyersI dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
Bill AyersI was terrible student at Michigan, terrible. Because there was too much else to do. I was learning form too many other sources to go to class.
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