Rainbow Beach wade-in continues to guide racial justice movement

There is an old man in the movement who still brims with the courage and love forged on a Chicago beach. His eyes do not work well anymore. It seems to bother him less than you would think. Norman Hill has seen more with his head and his heart than most of us ever see with our eyes. I met Norman in the summer of 1993, at the convention of the A. Philip Randolph Institute. He was its president. He and the labor leaders Bill Lucy, Richard Womack and Clayola Brown gathered two dozen young Black…