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She said, “My uncle. My uncle.”

Well, anyway, Harvey Swados was very much involved in it, too, with the students and the faculty.

You didn't finish the story. You ran into Gerda Lerner.

I ran into Gerda Lerner, and I mentioned in passing the Bronxville strike and about this couple. She said, “You know, that's very, very funny.”

“What's so funny about that?”

“You know, I was in Washington a few months ago and I was speaking on my book. After it was over, there was a reception at the home of the Richardsons. You know, I spent the night there. After everybody left, they took me down to the basement and they said, ‘We'd like you to see something that's the most important thing that we ever did.,’ And they showed me the plaque from Dr. King, and told me the story.” John Richardson is now the president of the board of the National Endowment for Democracy.

That's nice.

Yes.

When exactly was the Bronxville strike?

I'm glad you asked that.

April 1965.

Statewide law [shuffling through papers] March '65, “The Strike is Ending.”

By Henry Foner.

By Henry Foner. Look at this. “Then that bright press agent Foner brought the boys up from Wyona to Sarah Lawrence.” It's got all the names in.

“The gals from Sarah Lawrence all expressed their abhorrence.” [Laughs]

“Looking spruced up and pretty, they paraded through. They were equal to any man.”

Pre-feminism.