Back when I worked in the civil rights movement I met too many heroes to name all. But there are two in particular that I would really like to mention. They aren't well known, but each played an important part and each took great personal risks. The two are Diane Nash Bevel and Jim Peck. Both were the victims of police brutality and mob violence. Jim, for example, was savagely beaten and left for dead during the Freedom Rides. Diane was spit upon, punched, kicked, burned with lighted cigarettes, and then dragged away in handcuffs during the lunch counter sit-ins. But neither backed down in face of such assaults, nor did either respond with violence.