Carolina QuotesTaking the long view is important. The generations need to converse. The elders who once battled to integrate schools must listen to the young people who are now battling forces that funnel them from classrooms into prisons. The younger generation needs to understand how the modern movement is built upon every black-freedom effort that preceded it.
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- "The Civil-Rights Movement’s Generation Gap" article in The Atlantic (2018)
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