early struggles to end racial segregation in the South. Mostly children of affluence, these unlikely rebels saw links between their personal troubles (a nagging sense of meaningless- ness, disenchantment with materialism) and larger public issues. In- deed, it was this merger of private and public concerns that gave the youthful Movement its vitality and broad appeal, even before the Viet- nam draft loomed up as a focus for campus protest.
Why did such a lively social phenomenon fade 1973? Certainly...