October 1962 Issue [The Easy Chair] The Negro as first class citizen Download PDF Adjust Share Some comments and rejoinders by John Fischer, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 20th century African American civic leaders African Americans Civil rights Discrimination Military life Race relations Segregation United States United States Army More from John Fischer Ugliness and Tension The question for the arriving generation is not whether our society is imperfect (we can take that for granted), but how to deal with that imperfection. So far as I… From “Letter from Leete’s Island Field notes on the manners, morals, and customs of the Connecticut Yankee," January 1969 From “Letter to a new leftist, from a tired liberal,” March 1966 Adjust Share