The student sit-in movement that started in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, was spreading across the South. The memorial shows that the civil rights movement was not about one person but about all of the "ordinary people who did extraordinary things" to impact change, as my mother liked to say. The North Florida Fairgrounds now include a civil rights marker, which the author says her mother would be pleased to see. My mother would also be pleased to learn that the city and county have installed fourteen civil rights monuments in Cascades Park, Tallahassee's newest social and recreational center. My mother would be proud to know that the significant role played by activists in Tallahassee in the past is being remembered and celebrated to inspire people to impact change today and into the future.

Source: CNN January 19, 2020 13:07 UTC