It transmitted because on the campuses, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was recruiting, was organizing. Students for a Democratic Society was founded at Michigan just a couple years before I got there. So, there was a kind of a churning of political awareness. It was just beginning.
Bill AyersBeing arrested that also changed everything for me because I was suddenly seeing America from a different perspective all together. I did a couple of weeks in a county jail.
Bill AyersThere were no political ideas. It was an apolitical time. It was the '50s and in the privilege of the suburbs.
Bill AyersWhen someone who's always been in your life is gone, it's a stunning adjustment of your own identity.
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