An education leader relates how his experiences with the civil rights movement led him to develop programs promoting educational success in science and technology for African Americans and others.
When Freeman Hrabowski was twelve years old, a civil rights leader visited his Birmingham, Alabama, church and spoke about a children s march for civil rights and opportunity. That leader was the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and that march changed Hrabowski s life.
Until then, Freeman was a kid who loved school and solving math problems. Although his family had always stressed the importance of education, he never expected that the world might change and that black and white students would one day study together.
But hearing King speak changed everything for Hrabowski, who convinced his parents that he needed to answer King s call to stand up for equality. While participating in the famed Children s Crusade, he spent five terrifying nights in jail during which Freeman became a leader for the younger kids, as he learned about the risk and sacrifice that it would take to fight for justice.
Hrabowski went on to fuse his passion for education and for equality, as he.
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