“Because I’m old enough at almost 73 to …

“Because I’m old enough at almost 73 to have lived as an emerging adult through the Civil Rights revolution in the ’60s,” Cash says, “it’s interesting to me to think about the parallels and the contrasts that are unfolding today versus then. And the thing that jumps out at me most is the composition of the groups that are protesting. This issue has been around forever, long before 1965, so there’s no difference in the underlying issue. But the fact that there’s more visual evidence is without a doubt one of the big distinguishing factors. I guarantee you when people saw the images of what was happening on the bridge in Selma and other things in the mid-’60s, that’s what energized a large number of people to participate that otherwise might have been fairly passive.