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Fikes’ deep roots in the Civil Rights Movement date from the 1960s. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Fikes sat in at lunch counters, boycotted buses, registered voters, and led walkouts of her own R.B. Hudson High School—all to advocate for desegregation, voting rights, and social justice.…
On March 22nd of 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. famously said, “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” MLK’s dream was for all people—regardless of color, race, or background—to be treated with equality in society.…