Reporting Fellow Marcus Harrison Green spoke to the southern organizer about what today’s movement can learn from the past and bestow on future generations. I think that’s how you grow and that’s how you develop people. Allen: It’s a problem, but I don’t think it’s new. That’s the dynamic we’re working with nowadays, and I think that’s nothing new and it’s never going to end. We forget how many young people were involved in civil rights demonstrations while the NAACP was mostly a bunch of preachers.