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[illegible ^{A year} after Brown, a middle-aged department store seamstress in Montgomery, Alabama, refused to give up her seat on a city bus so a white man could sit down. Five years after Montgomery four black young men, college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, refused to give up their seats at a dime store lunch counter reserved for whites.

These small acts of passive resistance to American apartheid - and the acts of tens of thousands more - created a people's movement that eliminated legal segregation in less than a decade.

Those white Americans who declare today that yesterday's movement went too far have either forgotten or never know ^what yesterdar^y - for blacks - was really like. Let the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. put you back in that place, not quite a generation ago. To white clergymen in Birmingham who could not understand why he was an inmate in their jail, he wrote:

"When you have seen vivious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers at whim; when you have seen hate filled policemen curse, kick and even kill your Black brothers and sisters; when you see the vast majority of your twenty million negro brothers smothering in a airtight cage of poverty in the midst of an affluent society; when you suddenly find your tongue twisted and your speech stammering as you seek to explain to your six-year old daughter why she can't go to the public amusement park that has just been advertised on television, and see tears welling up in her eyes when she is told that Funtown is closed to colored children, and see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky, and see her beginning to distory her personality by