About the creator of the "Environiks"
Willie M. Zanders, Esq.
Willie Zanders, Sr. is former SGA President at Grambling University, expelled for leading an anti-sports protest. Later admitted to Loyola University (LA), he earned his Bachelors and Law Degree, and went on to serve as Director of Upward Bound and the Dean of City College, along with teaching school law at Xavier University (LA). While his 40+ year law career has centered around Education Law and Medical Malpractice cases, he has also been admitted to practice before the Louisiana Supreme Court, the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court. In addition to being creator of the Environiks, he is also author of "Teachers of the Storm" and “67 Days in 67”, as well as music producer of the message music-styled "Brother, Get Your Head Right" and his ode to an inspirational mentor, "She's One of a Kind". He currently resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and celebrates his wife and family, including five grandchildren.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, one of America's worst natural disasters, 7500 public school employees were unjustly fired as part of a sinister state takeover to make New Orleans the nation's first all-charter school district. Discover how money, power, politics and race changed New Orleans for generations to come. Read sworn testimony about the largest mass firing of public school employees in American history, as over a dozen witnesses testify in one of the most important school law cases in 50 years.
This insider’s account of sixty-seven turbulent days at the historic institution as described in TIME Magazine, December 15, 1967:
“One of the nation’s most prolific producers of big time athletics is Grambling College (Louisiana). But the demanding new mood of Negro students is no longer satisfied with athletic fame. Grambling student leaders recently shattered the serenity of the pine-woods campus in such a forceful protest over what they called “a second-rate atmosphere for learning” that [600] National Guardsmen were summoned."
Student body president Willie Zanders complained...the real point of the protest at Grambling is that Negro students are now aroused enough — and care enough — to risk expulsion in demanding a better college education...Discontent over the incident is likely to last for years." Learn about this story of courage and equality today!
