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planet had made a visit to planet Earth around 1965 or anytime within the first years of that decade. Their impression of what was going on in this country would have been so different from what they would have seen coming 10 years later that I doubt that they would have believed that their visit was to the same planet. For example, had these visitors come around 1965 they would have been impressed with the influence that black people were having on the structure of American society. They would have seen such leaders as Martin Luther Bang Jr., Malcolm X and others. They would have noticed that Presidents who held offices during those years were at least sympathetic to the concerns of blacks

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