Guest speaker Dr. Mark D. Naison is a professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University in the Bronx, and author of "White Boy: A Memoir" (2002; his autobiography about race relations in Brooklyn). An energetic lecturer, he talks about his book, about growing up in Brooklyn, and how he became an activist. "I didn’t choose activism; history tapped me on the shoulder." Naison explains that the diaspora of African Americans from the South into northern cities resulted in multi-ethnic neighborhoods of all kinds. For the first time, white kids and black kids were growing up together and playing sports together at school; also, rhythm-and-blues and other forms of African American music were being marketed to young urban whites. He addresses his student audience as a group of young people who are facing the war with Iraq and an economy more depressed than that of the 1960s and encourages them to think about what makes people decide to take politics and history seriously. Naison says that when he heard Martin Luther King’s "I have a dream" speech, he joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). He talks about how male college students were alarmed about the Vietnam War because student deferments were being eliminated by 1967. NOTE: Naison says at the beginning that he will talk about Black Power movements, but because of edits in the video, this is not covered, while his discussion of Vietnam appears twice.