To Inspire You

What we need now, more than anything else, are people who are willing to do the difficult work of bridging gaps and healing wounds, people in our communities who can rally others together, across lines of division, for the greater good, people who reject cynicism and winner-take-all politics, and instead embrace the more difficult work this generation now faces: to unite our country in common cause

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Today In History

• In 1955 - Start of Montgomery Bus Boycott
  
• In 1987 - Carrie Saxon Perry begins terms as Mayor of Hartford, CT, becoming first black woman mayor of a major US city
  
• In 1961 - Ernie Davis becomes first African American to win Heisman Trophy
  
• In 1641 - Massachusetts becomes first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery