The drive in the car is always a chance for talking with my son. Last night, we talked about Martin Luther King Jr., C.K. Steele, Ralph Abernathy, Rosa Parks, Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson.
Jakes and Patterson were the young Florida A&M students who ignited the Tallahassee bus boycott in 1956 and helped spread the civil-rights movement to Florida’s capital city.
We spoke of Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Monte Irwin, Larry Doby and Jackie Robinson, ball players who not only changed America’s national pastime but also helped change America.
The Tuskegee Airmen and Seaman Doris Miller of the USS West Virginia, the first African American to win the Navy Cross for heroism at Pearl Harbor; he deserved the Medal of Honor.
Doug Williams, first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl and Sam “Bam” Cunningham, whose talents as a running back for the University of Southern California caused Alabama to integrate its football team under Bear Bryant.
Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court justice; Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, the first African American secretary of state and first African American woman secretary of state.
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