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Interviewer Name
Aisha Rickford (Class of 2020)
Interview Date
11-10-2019
Interview Location
Brunswick, Maine
Document Type
Interview
Abstract
Richard Adams ‘73 talks about lobbying during his senior year of high school in Pittsburgh to make Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday a national holiday, shortly after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968. He chose Bowdoin for its liberal proclivities, believing it would be place for him, an avid activist by the time he graduated high school. Adams’s activism followed him to Bowdoin, where he was active in the African-American Society, finding a home in the black community at Bowdoin and in Maine at large, and how his passion for activism defined his time at Bowdoin and beyond.
Unique ID
AFAM50OH022
Recommended Citation
Adams, Richard, "Interview with Richard Adams (Class of 1973) by Aisha Rickford" (2019). AF/AM/50 Oral History Project. 23.
https://digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu/afam50oralhistory/23