Dr. Carlos Montezuma, Activism, & American Indian Racial Injustice

Jamie Singson, director of the Native American House at the University of Illinois, on how Carlos Montezuma's education at the University of Illinois (1880-1884) shaped his later challenges to systems oppressing American Indians in the early 20th century, and how his activism (he died in 1923, a year before American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship) helped pave the way for contemporary Native American civil rights. Fall 2015 series "Breaking Down Racism."