John Fenzel 7/20/26 John Fenzel 7/20/26

The Blinding of Sergeant Isaac Woodard and Executive Order 9981

In an election year he was expected to lose, Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. The road began on a Greyhound bus.

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Jo Ann Robinson: The Woman Who Organized a Boycott Into a Machine

Rosa Parks was the spark. Jo Ann Robinson built the machine: 52,500 leaflets in one night and 381 days of logistics.

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Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line, then spent his platform opening doors for others until the end. Leverage means spending it.

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Septima Clark built a movement out of literacy worksheets and registration forms. Paper decides who gets in, and logistics can drive moral force.

John Fenzel 1/19/26 John Fenzel 1/19/26

From a Birmingham jail cell, Martin Luther King Jr. answered everyone who said wait. Urgency with discipline, and love that doesn't flinch.

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Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat on December 1, 1955. Nine months earlier, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing.