ABSTRACT
(Writing this essay about Ron Walters has been one of my most daunting challenges . . . ever. I have written draft after draft, and then discarded each, one after the other, because none, to my satisfaction, captured Ron’s specialness as a friend and confidant, nor his unique role as a steadfast, but scrupulously non-ostentatious activist, political strategist, and tireless advocate for the race. But the greatest challenge has been how to communicate to others my growing realization that Ron’s story is also the story of our generation—and the story, writ small, of Black political struggle in America in the post-war world.)
