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.
Tom Hayden and Rennie Davis, circa 1970 Photographer: Doug Fulton
Year:
c.1970
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Rally Climaxes Peaceful Protest
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War Protesters At U-M Plan Parade, Mass Rally
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One-Man Police Intelligence Unit Retires
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Tom Hayden Speaks at ACLU Meeting at University of Michigan on Iraq War, April 2007 Photographer: Robert Chase
Year:
2007
Ann Arbor News, May 1, 2007
Caption:
Activist and University of Michigan alum Tom Hayden spoke at a press conference Monday at the Michigan Union. He was in Ann Arbor to speak at the meeting of the Washtenaw branch of the ACLU of Michigan.