The first 6 pictured below: Leora Berman, Stephen Green, Richard Griswold, Leon Horne, Katherine Pleune, and Lewell Woods, Jr.
Stephen Green has been, among other things, the deputy country director for UNICEF in Ethiopia, at a time when he "helped expose and respond to the famine Haile Selassie's government had been hiding form the world. Somalia, the Balkans, and Darfur are among the locations he has lived and served in. He is one of many Freedom Riders who maintained a life of service after the Rides. - Breach of Peace (Etheridge, 2018)
I thought I had a pretty good sense of what was happening. I'd don't things, you know. But once I was thrown in jail in Jackson, it instantly became apparent how much I didn't know.
I was a reasonably intelligent twenty-one-year-old who thought he was pretty well prepared to deal with the world. I'd been to France for a summer. I spoke another language.
I was thinking, "G- damn it, how did I get this old and be this dumb about how things are." I realized just how deficient my education had been, in a broad sense, and with that realization came a bit of anger. I knew what my father had paid to send me to Middlebury.
I don't know how much more intensively your life could be changed and your politics be changed and your view of the world be changed in forty-two days. If there were a way to do that any faster, I can't imagine what it would be. -Stephen Green (Breach of Peace, Etheridge, 2018)
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