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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. ) ....
During the early months of quarantine last year, after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis ignited protests and calls for change across the country, friends Devin Anglin and Rashad Smith had a benign conversation in Rochester about cycling. “The George Floyd protests were rampant at that time … and we were like, ‘Yo, we should just get out and ride our bikes,’” Anglin said. And it just so happened that the upcoming Saturday was Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day. It marks the June 19, 1865 announcement that ended slavery in Texas. Jubilees in celebration of Black emancipation have widely existed across the South, and in recent years, Juneteenth has become a more mainstream holiday nationwide. ....