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I Would Say When I Went To Michigan. It Started. I Got Very Very Involved In Civil Rights In Ann Harbor Right Away. Picketing, Something I Never Even Knew Existed.

Fairly Apolitical. Kind Of Aspiring To Participate In Life. I'm 18-19 Years Old. Wanting To Dive Into The World And Finding The World Opening For Me In Ways That Were Unimaginable. I Didn't Sleep For The Whole First Year At University Because It Was Too Much Going On. Too Many Films To See, Too Many Concerts To Go To.

It's Worth Remembering That In 1965, Something Like 20% Of Americans Were Against The War. Something Like 70% Were For The War. So, It Wasn't A Popular Or An Easy Thing To Do.

I Don't Buy The Whole Mythology Of The Sixties. I Think I'm An Intergenerational Person.

Let's Look At Two Things Real Quickly: The Civil Rights Movement In Mississippi In The Sixties And The Arab Spring Starting In Tunisia And Cairo. What They Had In Common Was People Who Were Told, And Who Believed Inside Themselves, That They Were A Certain Way, And The Society At Large Believed It.