Wild Bill Hickok was an abolitionist.  John Brown, also.   The latter may be the harder of the two to see as a model of humanity.  Very recently, people engaged in progressive politics have been outspoken about the advancement of African American People.   Much as I know, from the evening news, attitudes in the round differ from those of Brown and Hickok.   Also, from cold war era Democratic liberals that were engaged in civil rights.  Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist, and his bag was disparate from modern Gucci and Louis Vuitton baggage.    

The unpleasantness on college campuses.   New ideas?   New methods?  Masses of people in identical mind sets, calling for harm to persons in  the Family of Man?   It's a repeat performance.  Maybe young people feel cheated out of the past.  They didn't get to hang with Che Guavera.  Or protest the Vietnam War, like their grandfolks did.   Those people were exiting.   No one under age seventy five used LSD made by Sandoz!  Our youth deserves a chance to make up for all those things they can't do or have now.  I understand.  When I was kid I used to watch the television show Room 222, and could totally relate to Pete Dixon.   Haven't I done enough to help?

Ideas.   Methods.   An ad hoc committee is formed, it works it's agenda, and disperses when results say, 'enough.'   Thanks for reading.