Perspectives
"What I got from the UM Black Studies Program was far more than an understanding and appreciation of the African-American experience--although I came away with a deep connection to the power and wisdom of this exquisite culture. The greater gift I received was a world view that allowed me to deal powerfully and easily with cultures from all over the world as I traveled to 30 countries over the course of my career. What I got from Black Studies and from Ulysses Doss was the ability to step outside my own cultural conditioning in humility and appreciation and to be able to hear the beauty that lives at the core of humans everywhere.
I'm sure that the number of times that former students of Missoula's Black Studies Program have reached out to their fellow humans with kind eyes and open hearts must number in the millions. For you cannot help but be changed in learning the songs of the Black community, or in learning of the bravery of the followers of Gandhi's non-violence, of Saul Alinsky's populist democratic power tactics, or in hearing Martin Luther King's, (and Ulysses's) ringing prayers for human change and planetary transformation."
Steve Corrick, student
UM Black Studies 1972-76
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