Helping the Disenfranchised: An Autobiography

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I was asked to write about my life of activism for 50th reunion book for my class of 1966 of Williams College.

by David Tobis

I have spent my life trying to shift the balance of power toward the disenfranchised—sharecroppers in Mississippi, peasants in Guatemala, children with disabilities, and poor families of color whose children have been taken from them, often for reasons of poverty and race.  I launched my career of activism at Williams, a safe though narrow place to begin.  Safe because we were in the purple valley and our every need was taken care of by the college. And narrow because it was a white male upper to middle class college with a smattering of others and a similarly narrow ideological perspective…

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