ABSTRACT
The present can become an epoch in which the dreams of the past for an enlightened and just democracy are turned into a reality. The massing of voices protesting racial discrimination have roused this nation to the need to rectify racial and other social injustices. The adoption by Congress of a host of welfare measures and the Supreme Court’s specification of the meaning of equal protection by law both reveal the response to protest and open the way for the vast changes still required.
