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FAST FORWARD: Figures From Long Island's Civil Rights Movement

Compiled by Joye Brown | Staff Writer

Lincoln O. Lynch, 78, Manhattan

Then: Long Island chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality

Now: Retired

Most Successful Achievement: ``We made people aware of the conditions that existed and what they could do about it ... no one else had dared to meet the situation head on.''

Least Successful: Bringing more black students into the movement. ``We made the mistake of educating white people on Long Island too much rather than educating black students on how to be effective activists.''

Looking Forward: ``I would advise the young people to be smart and to be vigilant, to develop a set of principles, to achieve respect and dignity and to demand acceptance with no strings attached.''

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Annette Triquere, Westbury Then: director of the Freedom School, a summer program for youth that operated in conjunction with the Hempstead school system; member of CORE.

Now: Retired. Teaches voice.

Most Successful Achievement: ``We found a way for everybody to contribute. We were able to do it and and prove by our example that it can be done.''

Least Successful: Unable to maintain momentum, coalitions. ``All of a sudden, when school integregation became an issue, all hell broke loose. People didn't want integration too close to home.''

Looking Forward: ``People have to unite for equality and have to be willing to work, and work together, for it.''

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Eugene Reed, 75, Amityville Then: State, local, national NAACP official; attended funeral of his friend, slain activist Medgar Evers in Jackson, Miss., with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; active in the South during the most violent times of the national civil rights movement.

Now: Retired dentist.

Most Successful Achievement: Planning and organization, whether for demonstrations or lawsuits, that led to results. ``We were good at letting the punishment fit the crime.''

Least Successful: Cultivating new activists. ``I'm 75 years old and I'm not going to be on the front lines anymore. Someone has to take my place. And they will have to organize, organize, organize.''

Looking Forward: ``There is always the need to root out subtle discrimination; it is not on the surface anymore.''

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Delores Quintyne, 64;