Sublime

people!

want.

were doing as a body, instead of just having me comment on various issues of the day.

have the means to do that.

"You can be one hell of a leader at the Urban

Similarly, if we wanted to firmly establish the Urban League as a civil rights organization, we also had to develop and maintain a recognizable and steady presence in the national community-to let the country know what we

The Urban League, however, was advocacy-which meant action-constituency-based services to black people.

were not true.

For twenty years, I had been on a mission, part of a movement designed to bring black people into full citizenship. What did that mean, if not that blacks on an individual basis would be free to chart their own courses in life-to figure out for themselves what role they