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fractured skulls and shallow graves that marked the bloody sixties are already distant history, replete with revisionism and indistinguishable from television docu-drama. To black adults, the "protests" symbolized a passing of the torch, unorthodox extensions of the struggle long waged through traditional channels--the NAACP, churches, voter's leagues, and "sitting up" with the white folks. Predictably, some blacks deplored the new activism as jeopardizing existing gains.

It was true that black people had progressed since our arrival in 1620 on the inhospitable shores of the newly-stolen land. We were no longer bartered and used like plows and bags of seed. We were better off than the four million freed