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[The whole first year at university] was a great time for me and great time of awakening.
Bill Ayers
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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
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This 1965. We went to trial on our city. We were obviously borrowing tactics and strategy from the Black freedom movement, and we were echoing their approach to things.
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Without a doubt. It's woven into our DNA in a very deep way and so to kind of be smacked in the face with the hypocrisy of the America that we were sold was a liberating and harsh experience.
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I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
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