People: Actor/Activist Jesse Williams, Son Of Teachers & Former Teacher

#JesseWilliams speech. Make sure you watch it!https://t.co/XnsmQKAOUY

— Tswana Montana (@Tswana_Guy3) June 29, 2016

Sunday night's stirring BET speech put Jesse Williams' activism on the front burner, but this obviously wasn't the start of anything for him.

Vox has a nice roundup of issues and moments he's spoken out. The Times has a transcript of the speech. He's a board member of the Advancement Project, which bills itself as a "next generation national civil rights organization."

But that's not all. He's the son of educators, was a teacher himself. He grew up in Chicago and worked at a Philadelphia charter school after graduating from Temple, according to his biography. Wikipedia says he taught for six years. 

“I loved being a teacher. It’s the best thing I have ever done. My favorite job ever. I miss it every day,” says Williams in The Guardian (Jesse Williams: I am not going to participate in celebrity culture.)

I haven't been able to find out which schools he taught at, or which schools he attended.