Dear Editor,
In your editorial of November 6, captioned ‘The Obama win,’ you mentioned several persons who were involved in the civil rights movement. However, you omitted one very important name and that is James Meredith.

Meredith, you would remember, met with plenty of opposition when he tried to enrol in the all-white University of Mississippi in 1961.
I do remember reading somewhere that someone said then that the white Americans must understand that some time in the future America would have a black president. Well the future is now.

I do feel after two years of Obama rule there will be plenty of discontent since he would not be able to fulfil the promises he made, not because of his failings but because the American system won’t be able to do it.
Yours faithfully,
Wendell P George

Editor’s note
There was no intention in the editorial of providing a list of leading civil rights activists; the issue was to take one or two examples of famous events or actions over the course of the movement to demonstrate that they all occurred well within living memory.