The Queens School in Kew Gardens, New York was a private school in the 1960s and early 1970s that was run by Vietnam war-protesting liberals, and not a day goes by that I don’t cherish the education I received there. We wrote letters to Dr. King and sang songs like “We Shall Overcome” and “Kumbaya” and recycled and learned French. We were in the eye of the civil rights storm, but all we knew was that no one was free until everyone was free. We longed for the day that all people could aspire to all things, and that people should be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
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