My daughter called me on Election Day, on her way to Philadelphia with a car full of fellow attorneys to work in the Obama campaign to guard against potential voter fraud. She was elated, and made me smile when she told me, "You know, Daddy, your generation made this possible!" Throughout the day she gave me reports and running commentary: long lines but with people resolved to stay no matter what; the coffee they served the people; the warmth, the sharing and most important, the Energy. For her, like the young people I listened to via the media throughout the grueling 22 months of the campaign, this was their "Civil Rights Movement". They interrupted their lives to knock on doors to do voter registration. They endured bad weather, uncertain living conditions, and unpredictable responses. Later, they carried the word, brought out the vote and in the end, Victory! . "I never felt like this before", they all said in unison, from wherever they were in the country on the evening of November 4th. I thought back to my own Movement experiences: the March on Washington, the Selma to Montgomery March, the violent encounters with cops, the Ku Klux Klan and a stay in Kilby State Prison in Alabama. I remember the people of South Africa where I served as an election monitor in 1994, as thousands of people stood in line for hours, some of them pushed to the polling places in wheelbarrows, to vote for the first time in their lives. These were our never to be forgotten experiences. And now my daughter and her generation had theirs to cherish forever. I was happy to share it with them. I must admit that I came to Obama late, using the same Movement yardstick of my youth to question his leadership capacity. But after the last television debate, I changed my mind. He took every punch McCain threw at him, smiled, and stayed on point, undeterred. That day he proved his leadership worth by old standards broadly construed: Obama was tough, disciplined, and able to take punishment. And most important, as we believed, he "Kept his eyes on the Prize"! His appeal was to the issues, but more basically to the decency in all of us, no matter who we were. Last night on TV I saw Jesse Jackson alone in the crowd in Chicago with tears in his eyes. Maybe his tears were bittersweet. Had he kept building the Rainbow Coalition after 1988 when last he ran for President, it might have been him on that stage. Or maybe his tears were of joy and disbelief: he never thought in his lifetime that a black man would be President Elect of the United States. Jesse has earned the right to cry. Obama stands on the shoulders of folks like Jesse who paid some terrible dues, through organizations with now unfamiliar names like SCLC, SNCC, CORE and NAACP. Jesse deserves that moment and hopefully within that center of goodness tapped by Obama, there is room for forgiveness for the despicable things he said? Jesse, Rev. King, Fannie Lou Hamer and a host of others were part of the "Moses Generation". Organizations like those identified above brought us to the Mountaintop. I heard a commentator on CNN say that Obama and those now in their 40s and 30s, are the "Joshua Generation": 40 years later, he (they) will lead us into the Promised Land. Symbolically of course, but what is the Promised Land? Surely, not the election victory, though altogether significant in closing the racial and generational divide that has hampered a contemporary progressive movement on the issues. Millions of white voters helped a black man become the leader of the United States, along with millions of young people. In 1954, during the celebration and euphoria of the Supreme Court decision on school desegregation in Brown vs. Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall, lead Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, disappeared. When located in a back room, alone, holding his head in his hands, he told his concerned supporters, "Now, we have to begin!" Obama understands this, but do we? Who will organize to achieve it? Even earlier, a well-wisher cornered President Franklin Roosevelt after his election, at a time when hopes ran high. The man explained an idea for the New Deal, and at the end of the conversation, the President said, "That's a great idea. Now, make me do it"! We who believe in the transformational message of this great watershed moment in history must indeed be prepared to do just that. Only then will Help truly be on the way. Junius Williams is a Newark Attorney and Director of the Abbott Leadership Institute, Rutgers University, Newark. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Agricultural Missions, Inc., and is currently serving as Board Secretary.