somebody like bob moses. i think if we invert that, it give us more empathy in many ways for the burdens that civil rights activists faced. and the difficulties they had, you know, later in their lives. i think of being part of the movement as the domestic equivalent of the vietnam war and i think a lot of civil rights activists suffer from a post-traumatic stress disorder. so to answer your question, no, it took them a while to see that they were really part of a movement. but one thing that happened right away which i was struck by was the extent to which they had a sense of camaraderie with each other. and a sense of group identity partially generational almost from the beginning. even as they went back to being students, they still realized that they were connected together in some ways and that sense of cohesion helped produce a tighter sncc as the movement, you know, went on. and that that kind of happened very, very quickly. even coming out of the conference in 1960 and even as they went back, they sti

of the naacp and john lewis became a congressman the person who stayed closest to the ideals is bob moses organized in the '80s the algebra project to teach students in rural mississippi and in the inner city of baltimore and your can boston to call mass literacy to civil-rights of the 21st century. the lives of the civil-rights generation is the people themselves but as a cautionary tale the expectations that people who help to bring about change in the '60s can all hope solve racial problems and today are not even the cents that the story has shifted in some ways and the things that were successful than may not be successful today with the assumption that if you are at the forefront then you could be at the forefront now is a broad and one we should avoid. >> >> you made reference to the civil-rights movement and it is easy to see from now back the cents birmingham and a little rock and a "time" magazine cover that that was the staal i am curious as to whether there was say sense of them being in a movement as they did it to the expense -- extend from the back? >> it is a great question

it was bob moses, may talk about him for one second. he had come to a band of -- in atlanta 1961 he saw the sit in in new york he taught at a prep school he was so moved he decided he wanted to work for the southern leadership christian conference and martin luther king sent him off to stuff envelopes and they thought here's a guy who went to harvard and as a grad student and is wasted sell he met a guy named a more from mississippi and had been an organizer for civil-rights in mississippi for a number of years and what good is e teeing in a restaurant if you don't have any money? but sit in is nice but for people love the deep south whirl african-americans those are irrelevant it is a middle-class protest and don't do anything for us. moses realized that tactics could be applied to voter registration to say that in the deep south where the whites tried hard to keep african-americans from voting give you use the same tactics but applied to vote to registration you could apply change and with direct action moses changed snic that became