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Podcast: Talk of the Bay from KSQD
Episode: John Brown Childs brings the ancient wisdom of peacemaking
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John Brown Childs is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He was born on December 2, 1942, in a public housing project, in the Roxbury section of Boston.
In 1963, he co-organized a group of students from the University of Massachusetts to go to the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where MLK delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech. In 1965, he took part in the Civil Rights Movement in Montgomery, AL, as a member of “Friends of SNCC”. For the past 17 years, as a partner with the community organization Barrios U...