BOND: Dick Gregory, welcome to Explorations in Black Leadership.

GREGORY: Thank you.

BOND: I'm going to begin with a few questions about the decision in Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954. You were three years out of high school when this decision was handed down.

GREGORY: May the 17th.

BOND: At the time, what did you think it was going to mean?

GREGORY: I didn't. The shock -- I mean, the legis... -- the world was stunned, you know wh...