The Generation Gap on DU is real

[betsuni]

207. "As the Jackson Free Press reported, John Salter, a professor at Tougaloo College, was sitting

with his three Black students -- Anne Moody, Pearlena Lewis, and Memphis Moody -- at the 'Whites Only' lunch counter in Woolworth's. Nobody would serve them. This was 1963.

"'The police officers were watching just a few feet away while these thugs were kicking this young Black guy. Kicking him in the face. Finally they broke it up and arrested Norman and someone else. Anne was pulled from her seat, as was Pearlena, but they fought their way back to the counter. John Salter was struck down by a punch, leaving Anne and Pearlena, at the counter. They were smeared with ketchup, mustard, sugar, anything that was on the counter. They sat and faced the front.' They did not take [the] advice to 'curse, scream, and name-call.' They were exceedingly civil, and their actions were unbelievably powerful.'

"'But anger is not a strategy. Sometimes it's a trap.'"

Steven Stoft, "Ripped Apart"

The American public supported the civil rights movement because of this approach.