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to the nation, our status was painfully clear. A people whose passage to these shores had been described as "one long line of blood, with tossing limbs and the echoing cries of death and pain, "¹ we had been declared a problem--by the same group who created the "problem", then neglected to develop a solution.

It was a landmark year for young blacks; the question "Where were you during the sit-ins" would become as much a part of the national black litany as a recitation of one's whereabouts at the moment of the murders of John and Bobby Kennedy, or Martin Luther King.

To millions of black teenagers today, the sit-ins, lie-ins and marches, the hoses, cattle prods and jails, the