Who preceded the Black Panthers, Southern Christian COalition and others...Pioneers. Without the epic struggle between men such as W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington, and not to mention Marcus M. Garvey. BGLO's were formed in response to the times, they were not formed to tame the evils of oppression. But to give blacks a voice. Your remarks are lucid but a little diluted. Nothing that happened in the sixties could have occurred without what happened prior. Each period of time was one which saw the evolution of a people. Sometimes, as in the sixties, the movement is swift and grand...However, more often than not, movement is incremental. Those incremental movements occur every day and should be recognized. There is no bottom line because the only true bottome line is death.

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