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Before Franklin Florence, the first president of FIGHT, was Walter Cooper and the Young Turks, a small but influential cohort of Black intellectuals who found themselves rudely sidelined as Uncle Toms after the early 1960s. They in turn represented a more confrontational approach than Charles Lunsford and Van Levy, the city s first Black doctor and dentist, had employed when Rochester s Black population remained minuscule.
(The thread of generational tension goes back even further, in fact. Levy, who arrived in Rochester in 1922, later recalled: There were just some things here that had to be done in 1922 and the local people here, at that time, really had no way of approaching things. )