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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school.

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.