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35 - A Long and Winding Road

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2022

By
Timothy D. Wilson
Edited by
Saul Kassin
Saul Kassin
Affiliation:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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I am a child of the 1960s, raised by liberal parents and educated at a Quaker school in Philadelphia that prized social activism. I worked with kids in inner city day camps for four summers. I attended my first anti-war demonstration in Washington in 1969. I was a first-year college student in the spring of 1970 when many colleges went on strike to protest the invasion of Cambodia, and spent a week in Washington, DC attending protests. (My friends and I rolled into in DC at 11 p.m. with no place to stay, but within minutes of walking into Student Mobilization Headquarters, a stranger offered to let us sleep on the floor of her apartment.) These were heady times; we truly believed that we were helping to end the Vietnam War and maybe even fostering a revolution.

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Pillars of Social Psychology
Stories and Retrospectives
 , pp. 301 - 307
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • A Long and Winding Road
  • Edited by Saul Kassin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
  • Book: Pillars of Social Psychology
  • Online publication: 29 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009214315.035
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  • A Long and Winding Road
  • Edited by Saul Kassin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
  • Book: Pillars of Social Psychology
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009214315.035
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  • A Long and Winding Road
  • Edited by Saul Kassin, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
  • Book: Pillars of Social Psychology
  • Online publication: 29 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009214315.035
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