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Julian Bond
Atlanta, Georgia
copyright 1977

Nearly two decades now have elapsed since the reluctant dawn of still another new era for black Americans. 1960 marked the beginning of a tumultuous time when old dreams, and new dreamers would flourish or die, when swift, often violent upheaval would challenge the nation's two-hundred-year old "separate but unequal" policies.

It began as a conservative time, the celebration of the status quo, when young men and women who called themselves "black" invited the scorn of their elders still fighting to be called capital "N" Negroes. If our history was not familiar

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