Activity Quote by Danny Glover

[The strike in 1968] brought us together with teachers and also with progressive whites. All of us came from diverse backgrounds, but at the…

— Danny Glover

I was in an organization called Progressive Labor Party and International Committee Against Racism. And I was - I started out helping to organize…

— Boots Riley

The strike and its outcome had an enormous impact on the system of education and on our lives as well. The strike began as…

— Danny Glover

“If there was a single event that galvanized conservative donors to try to wrest control of higher education in America, it might have been…

— Jane Mayer

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock

I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only…

— Michael Gove

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

In 1999, I was in St. Louis with Martin Luther King III as we led protests against the state's failure to hire minority contractors…

— Al Sharpton

I went to a historically black college.

— John David Washington

I was part of the draft resistance movement in LA where we did demonstrations at the draft centre and burned our cards and made…

— Cheech Marin

I went to University of Illinois. Big school. 35,000 students. 800 black... I was the only black in every class. Hard to be absent.

— Godfrey

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses