I identified with some of the stuff I was hearing. So, I kind of got drawn in and then some of my friends got drawn in. And we talked about it. And we decided to attend some of these meetings. It was never planned to be a walkout as much as a series of organized meetings between a group of students representing a larger group of students about some of the changes that we felt that needed to be made in the schools. But even that was very novel and a revolutionary idea for us to be thinking at the time. So, there was a series of meetings and we just remember that the ante was raised because they were being ignored.

The idea of an organized walkout didn't come up right away. It escalated into that, essentially, [over] one to two weeks. And then eventually by the 14th [of November, 1968], that was the day that we decided that we had to make our case known by going on a walkout. We decided those who identified with what we were doing would not attend classes that day and were actually gathering in front of the school.