One Los Angeles inner-city youth in his late teens said, “I had trouble growing up, because of my color and my environment. I got into drugs and gang-banging, and I got in too far and got myself shot. I wound up in this program, and all of that is totally in the past now. The study technology is powerful. It makes you want to learn, makes you your own teacher. These people stuck with me until I woke up and realized that I could learn and that I wanted to.”
Another reported, “I saw a psychiatrist who told me I was dyslexic. But I came to the literacy project, and in two or three weeks I was reading perfectly. I was able to go back to school and show off what I learned – I was reading better than the other kids.”
The World Literacy Crusade formed in 1992 in the wake of civil unrest in Los Angeles earlier that year. Compton had been hit hard by the destruction. Galvanized into action by the looting and criminality that had ravaged their neighborhood, a group of clergy in Compton, headed by the Rev. Alfreddie Johnson, a Baptist minister, decided to change conditions so that this chapter of history would never repeat.
Saving Lives through Education continued...
    
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