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Dates: during 1981-1981
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That political involvement began when Gould, a native of Queens, New York--"way out in Archie Bunkerland," he says--went to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in the early sixties. Southwestern Ohio, adjacent to Kentucky, still bore the stamp of the South in those days. "When I went there," he says, "most things were still segregated--theaters, bowling alleys, some restaurants. It wasn't like the deep South; segregation wasn't legislated, it was just a matter of custom." So Gould joined with a group of other students to fight the customs, and won. "It was exhilarating...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: Sitting Pretty--But Not Sitting | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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