Born in Southern California in July 1941, Hicks got involved in the civil rights movement as a young man during the 1965 Watts riots, initially as a militant leftist in the Black Power movement. Years later, in 1996 at Cal State Northridge, he would debate former Klansman David Duke on the issue of affirmative action.
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