Lawrence Hamm Contributed
On March 24 activist Larry Hamm, who is the chair of the People’s Organization for Progress (P.O.P.), marked 50 years of activism with a rally of activists with roots in student activism. The event commemorated the day Hamm led a walkout of students at Arts High School in support of the now historic Newark Teachers’ Strike in 1971.
The day Hamm led the walkout, students marched through downtown Newark and conducted a sit-in at the Newark Board of Education demanding that the Board come to terms with the teachers for the sake of salvaging their school year and demanding that students have more direct say in their education among some 25 other demands that they made.