Albert Einstein is depicted in the recent film Oppenheimer. That led me to want to read Walter Isaacson’s biography. What’s fascinating about the man is that he was a person who was very comfortable in his own skin and was a fierce believer in the rights of individuals. He was a progressive thinker on many topics including race. Einstein didn’t accept many speaking engagements near the end of his life. But he made an exception and gave a talk at the African American college Lincoln University. There he spoke with the college President’s son-six year old Julian Bond who later became a civil rights leader and president of the NAACP.
My first interview as a radio news student at Ball State was Julian Bond. Probably 1971.