I am an ordinary citizen, just like you, who answered a “call to action.” My parents were poor and they struggled to make life better for their children. Growing up in Birmingham, Alabama during the tumultuous Civil Rights Movement, I was just slightly younger than the little girls who died in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church on that Sunday morning.   But for the color of my skin, it could have been me in those church rubbles.  I learned about social justice at a very young age.
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