American fuel is highly subsidized. Travel and you’ll see an immediate difference. Nobody is going to buy a gas guzzling vehicle when they have high performance fuel efficient options.

She was affectionately known as the “Civi Rights Queen”.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down. ~ Constance Baker Motley

She was integral to the outcome of Brown versus Board of Education, the famous 1954 Supreme Court decision that struck down the separate but equal doctrine.

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Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?

I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house,