Everyday people were civil rights heroes, too. This is the story of one town's fight

https://www.npr.org/2022/10/23/ [login to see] /oxford-north-carolina-civil-rights-ben-chavis-henry-marrow
"Earlier this year, when I first started throwing around the idea of profiling members of the civil rights generation, I had no idea that I would end up telling the story of my own family.

I'm used to being a voice for others and giving them a platform, but not turning the spotlight on my own loved ones.

The more I thought about it, though, it made sense to look a little closer to home. My mom, Phyllis Jones, and uncle, Ben Thorpe, lived through the tumultuous desegregation of my family's hometown. They're not in any history books. Their stories are not unique. But, in a country that still struggles mightily over race and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, stories like theirs show that the past is not dead. It's living and breathing and close".