:22:00
that will help them for
the rest of their life.
:22:03
The kids that are not willing to do it...
:22:06
for whatever reason, uh...
:22:09
are not gonna be very successful
as far as here.
:22:12
The civil rights movement
started up in the '50s.
:22:16
When William first entered St. Joe's...
:22:19
tests revealed he was working
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.
:22:25
I could see that he had the potential...
:22:28
but because he was shy, it seemed as though
no one was trying to reach him.
:22:34
Sister Marilyn told me,
"You have to be one good ballplayer...
:22:39
to get in this school with these grades. '"
:22:42
- What war beginning in the '60s?
- Vietnam.
:22:45
At the end of the year,
he had gone four grades above...
:22:51
just in the way he listened and learned.
:22:58
Back in grammar school...
:23:01
academics really didn't matter
too much to me at all.
:23:07
It was playing ball for the team-
really, we was the standouts in the school.
:23:12
If you showed up in class,
that was good enough for them.
:23:16
I was just going to school for the girls.
:23:20
Trip out with your friends...
:23:22
get out, go play some more basketball.
:23:26
That was basically it.
:23:34
Arthur also entered St. Joe's
on a fourth or fifth-grade level.
:23:39
Nobody in their right mind
is crazy about school.
:23:44
If the president brought
up a thing right now
:23:46
that say, "Close all schools"...
:23:49
do you think any kids would be trying
to go out there, stand on a picket line...
:23:53
and wave and get billboards...
:23:58
saying, "Reopen schools"?