Frenesi

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In a message dated 1/4/04 6:40:04 PM, lycidas2 at earthlink.net writes:

<< Yeah, those who took part in the mass struggles of the 1960s and early
1970s will know that the birth of the struggle coincided not with the
initial campaign for civil rights but with the demand for black
liberation; that the leading influence was not Martin Luther King, Jr.,
but Malcolm X. >>

I disagree, but one trace an evolution, especially of the role
the media played. I can remember sitting spellbound in front
of the tube watching the federalized national guard of Alabama
confronting George Wallace standing in the doorway of the U. 
of A. attempting to block the matriculation of the first two
Afro-Americans in that school's history. I was probably eating
Sugar Smacks at the time, but it was breathtaking, and inspiring,
too.

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1294680.html