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and to insure a better life for our children. And in 1960, when a new President asked what we could do for our country, the answer was soon forthcoming.

Setting aside intellectual discussion in favor of organization, young blacks tested political theory with their feet. Dialectic took a back seat to a lunch counter sit-in, to drinking from a certain water fountain; to riding the bus in the seat of our choice, and registering to vote for the candidate of our choosing. Lives were changed, and some were lost, along the way. Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer, whose death earlier this year was not so much from disease as from living and fighting for human rights in rural Mississippi, summed it up: "We didn't come for