The pains taken by abolitionists, and suffragettes, and civil rights marchers, and marriage equality advocates brought America's core truth to light: that all people are created equal.
So one day, I saw a note about a woman named Marian Wright Edelman, a Yale Law School graduate, civil rights activist, who would go on to found the Children's Defense Fund.
On August 28, 1963, King led more than 20,000 people in a massive demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial where his speech I Have A Dream became a defining moment in civil rights history.
Going into the 50s and 60s race and the South return to the fore front of national politics, with the civil rights movement attempting to end segregation and ensure blacks truly had the right to vote.
The Vietnam War and the controversy surrounding the draft, the Cold War and the red scare, the civil rights movement, Woodstock and counterculture, the moon landing, and the list goes on.
Young people. Students who sat where you sit 75 years ago who overcame a Depression and won a world war; who fought for civil rights and put a man on the moon.
Although the MeToo message went viral due to public support from famous Hollywood actresses, the phrase itself was thought up years earlier by civil rights activist, Tarana Burke.