I think that one of the things that made this movement so different from its predecessors (like the Civil Rights Movement) was the fact that while many of its leaders (MLK, Medgar Evers) were killed, jailed and imprisoned there was the added urgency of the killing of the leaders of the movement by the disease itself, as well as being jailed. I am too old to know whether the history of the response to AIDS is even being taught in American schools. I bet not.