Militant black and white students had more in common than they realized. None was keen to join externally based organizations or to court state repression by proclaiming allegiance to an outlawed group. None heeded the argument, then fashionable in “liberation circles,” that anything short of armed or underground struggle, anything smacking of agitation for reforms or open organizational work, was tantamount to a recognition of the apartheid state and capitulation to it. They wanted to make change, not to be confined to jails.
