Life
Freeman Hrabowski: President of University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Monday, November 14, 2011
I am the third, Freeman Hrabowski the third,” the good president said. “And my grandfather was the first one born a free man as opposed to having to be freed.”
His personal history only grows more remarkable from there. Some of it is ugly. As a child, he was spat upon, in the face, during the “Children’s March” at the height of the civil rights movement and then was locked in jail for five days.