Impatience was the mood of the young sit-in demonstrators: impatience with the courts, with national and local governments, with negotiation and conciliation, with the traditional Negro organizations and the old Negro leadership, with the unbearably slow pace of desegreation in a century of accelerated social change. p.56
Between the unequivocal supoorters and the conservative diehards in the adult Negro community was a third group, whose response to the new militancy of the college generation was complex and curious. p.59