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I Was Involved With The Anti-apartheid Movement Through My Work As An Artist And Also Through My Political Commitment.

Freedom Summer, The Massive Voter Education Project In Mississippi, Was 1964. I Graduated From High School In 1965. So Becoming Active Was Almost A Rite Of Passage.

Since 1957, Black People Have Experienced Double-digit Unemployment - In Good Times And Bad Times. Look At The Population Of African Americans In Prison. They Represent More Than Half The Population Of Prisoners In The Country, 55 Percent Of Those On Death Row

[the Strike In 1968] Brought Us Together With Teachers And Also With Progressive Whites. All Of Us Came From Diverse Backgrounds, But At The Same Time The Reasons Why We Were At San Francisco State In The Late Sixties Was Because Of The Agitation And Movement Building That Had Occurred Within Our Communities. We Saw Ourselves Not Separate From The Community But Intimately Connected To It.

You Have This Response Of Angry Young People, With A War Going On In Vietnam, A Poverty Program That Was Insufficient, And Police Brutality.