Bill co-wrote the “Radical Guide to the University of Maryland. He later went on to become a tenured math professor at Prince Georges County Community College. He died of cancer in 2004.

His father, a leader of the Communist Party USA, was a Smith Act defendant who was arrested and spent time as a political prisoner for his beliefs. His mother, Sophie Gerson, was jailed on trumped up “murder” charges during the legendary textile workers strike in Gastonia, N.C., in 1929.


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