Freeman Hrabowski: Educating with Grit by Larger Than Yourself published on 2020-10-19T14:35:11Z At age 12, Freeman A. Hrabowski was arrested during Martin Luther King Jr.’s Children’s Crusade in 1963. Decades later, that same activist spirit led Hrabowski to become President of The University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Through his work as an author, advocate, educator, and mathematician, he has reimagined public higher education in Baltimore and beyond.