Because they’ve never experienced the way things used to be, there are so many things people take for granted today.
I remember segregation: being measured for clothes in a department store because, being black, I couldn’t try them on; drinking from the colored water fountain; riding on the back of a city bus. And then I remember going to my first integrated school in the third grade and finally being able to eat at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s where we shopped.
Things changed because people had the courage to fight for what’s right. Women and men, took to the streets, protested and boycotted businesses. They demanded equal rights. They demanded the right to vote. Some died to secure that right for us. This was the Civil Rights Movement; an unprecedented fight for equal rights and equal opportunity for all.
We must never forget those whose dreams we are living. I applaud people who stand up for what’s right, no matter the personal cost.