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Over the years between 1960 and 1965, the black college student was the decisive factor in social change for those black people less fortunate than the students themselves.

With the beginnings of the student sit-in movement in February, 1960, the black college student became the primary movers and doers on the racial scene. For nearly five years, black college students lead and directed and helped to man to barricades of a movement, begun on black college campuses, that eventually began to touch the lives of rural black people throughout the states of the old confederacy.

The movement these young people made moved from the Southern black college campus to the Southern fields where academic degrees were useless. The movement against segregated lunch counters moved against segregated voting booths in parts of the South where a college education meant next to nothing.

Now in 1968, the participation of those same young people is limited. Some have withdrawn because things have gotten better, they say. Others never joined, believing it better to somehow prepare themselves for some new tomorrow where racial distinctions would have dissapeared and men would considered one another on merit.

That both of these assumptions is false can be quickly shown. We are told that things are better while we know they are getting worse

We are told things we don't need to hear