Let's talk about an American hero who doesn't get the credit they should....
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Belle of the Ranch
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🗓️ 14 June 2021
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:21.0 | Well, howdy there, internet people it's Boa Gown. So today we are going to do a |
| 0:28.1 | little bit more to dispel great man theory. You know, this particular case, songs were written about the person. Movies, |
| 0:39.4 | books. It's not an unknown story, but for some reason when the topic comes up, his name |
| 0:49.9 | doesn't get mentioned as often as it should. |
| 0:52.8 | So today we're going to talk about an American hero. |
| 0:56.7 | He was born July 2nd, 1925, and he walked 12 miles to school every day, for real. |
| 1:05.0 | And uh, 1943, joined the military. |
| 1:08.0 | Sir, from 1943 to 1945, Darren World War II, fought at the Battle of Normandy. |
| 1:14.0 | 1948, he enrolled in Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical School. |
| 1:20.9 | That's Alcorn State University today. He got married in 1951. Had three kids. |
| 1:27.0 | In 1954 was Brown versus Board of Education. So he applied for the University of Mississippi law school. |
| 1:36.0 | He was denied due to his race. |
| 1:38.0 | But that same year, he was made first field secretary of the N-W-A-C-P in Mississippi. |
| 1:45.5 | There he organized boycotts, marches. |
| 1:49.8 | He forced-multly, made sure that other people could do what he did. Organized voting drives. Really put himself |
| 1:59.2 | out there and he understood the risks of it. He said that he's looking to get shot anytime he stepped |
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