I just saw a meme that brought up the fact that Martin Luther King, Anne Frank, and Barbara Walters were all born in 1929.
It boggles the mind how much the world has changed in the past 90 years. As the meme says, we feel these people are from different eras, but not really.
Similarly, the Civil Rights era feels like forever ago, but not in context. Rosa Parks’ protest was in 1955, twenty four years before I was born. Twenty four years ago from today, I was a sophomore in high school.
If taking the PSAT’s felt like yesterday, then the civil rights era only two and a half days ago!