Vee’s Fitness January 15, 2024

It’s important to say thank you to those who fought and sacrificed for the many things we might take for granted.  So I pause to say,  Thank You.  Today is the day Martin Luther King was born.  A fellow Morehouse Man who helped to influence change.  It would be irresponsible for me to give Martin Luther King all the credit and equally irresponsible for me not to give credit to some of the other influencers before, during, and after Martin Luther King's time who worked as hard and whose efforts also helped to influence change.  While I realize I can't name all the people who made sacrifices and helped with change, and it would be irresponsible to say who was more important,  I will name some of the significant events as a tribute to all the men and women who sacrificed to make things better.

Brown vs Board of Education

Emmitt Till

Rosa Parks

The Little Rock Nine

The sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter

The Freedom Riders

The March on Washington

The Church in Birmingham 

The Civil Rights Act of 1964

The quieting of Malcolm X

Bloody Sunday

The Voting Rights Act of 1965

The quieting of Martin Luther King Jr

The Fair Housing Act

Some names you might know and some names you probably won't know-

Rev. Dr. Pauli Murray

Carter G. Woodson.

Harry T. and Harriette Moore

Julian Bond

Medgar Evers

Mary White Ovington

Mamie Till Mobley

Claudette Colvin

Maude Ballou

Diane Nash

John Lewis

Coretta Scott King

Thank you to all the people past and present for your tireless effort to make things better for the underserved and the underrepresented.  

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