In Birmingham, Alabama 60 years ago, black students, some still in elementary school,

marched for an end to segregation. They were met with police dogs, fire hoses, and handcuffs. Today Today three people who can remember those events

because they themselves were students right here in Birmingham. Businesswoman

Mary Bush, University President Freeman Herbofsky,

and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,

on uncommon knowledge now.

And so my friends, they did not die in vain. God still has a way of ringing good out of evil.

History has proven over and over again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.

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Welcome to Uncommon Knowledge. I'm Peter Robinson. Mary Bush grew up in segregated

Birmingham and then went on to a career in finance and business that saw her earn

an MBA from the University of Chicago, work at Citibank and Chase Manhattan, serve in the Treasury Department during the Reagan administration, sit on the boards of companies including Marriott and Texaco, and found Bush International, the consulting firm, which she now serves as president.

Freeman Rubofsky III grew up right across the street from Mary Bush.

He went on to a career in academia, earning a doctorate in higher

education administration and statistics from the University of Illinois. Beginning in

1992, Dr. Rovovsky served as president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County,

one of the 12 universities in the University of Maryland system.

During his tenure, UMBC became the number one producer in the nation of African Americans who went on to complete STEM PhDs.

Dr. Habofsky stepped down as president of UMBC just last year.

Condoleezza Rice grew up here in Birmingham in the same neighborhood as Mary Bush and

Freeman-Hravofsky.

She went on to earn a doctorate in international relations from the University of Denver.

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