Those between MLK and the Present Day

Ole Miss, 50 Years Since Desegregation - NYTimes.com: At 50, I am part of a generation of African-Americans who were not Medgar Evers, James Meredith, Martin Luther King Jr. or countless others whose names we’ll never know. We did not take the beatings, feel the sting of the hoses, endure a thousand and one indignities as we lived our daily lives. We are old enough to have attended segregated schools by law, to have felt the tug of fear and angst before we could explain it. Yet we are young enough to have college educations we needed only to apply ourselves to achieve, to own iPhones on which we can read news of a president who looks like us.