AADL Talks To: Bill Ayers
Bill Ayers is a retired Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. During his time in Ann Arbor during the 1960s, he served as director of Ann Arbor's experimental Children's Community School; Education Secretary for the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and co-founder of the militant Weather Underground organization, which originated in Ann Arbor in 1969 as a far left-wing revolutionary party.
Ayers traces the path of his political awakening from wide-eyed college freshman to seasoned student organizer and educator. He reflects on the tumultuous moral dilemma he and many activists faced as the Vietnam War raged on in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He discusses the factionalism within the SDS leadership that resulted in the formation of the Weather Underground; how the strands of student activism during this turbulent time were rooted in the moral agenda outlined by Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.; and his lifelong pedagogic commitment to education.
Bill Ayers at Borders Book Store, September 1993 Photographer: John M. Galloway
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1993
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Bill Ayers at Borders Book Store, September 1993 Photographer: John M. Galloway
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Bill Ayers at Borders Book Store, September 1993 Photographer: John M. Galloway
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1993
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Bill Ayers at Borders Book Store, September 1993 Photographer: John M. Galloway
Year:
1993
Ann Arbor News, September 22, 1993
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Bill Ayers displays his latest book on education at recent Borders book signing.
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