My husband loves to tell Summer and I stories about growing up. He remembers everything.
Today while we enjoyed the balmy weather and the colorful sky he told us about his mom.
He came from a mixed political party family. Dad and clan were Republican but his mom's family was Democrat.
Here I should note that there were very few people of color, except native Americans, in Humboldt County in the 1960's. One of the few worked for his family as their cook.
In 1963 she asked for the time off to ride a bus to Washington DC to see MLK Jr. give the speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
My mother in law saw how much it meant to her. She, against her husband's wishes, funded the bus fare and meal money as well as paying her wages while she was gone.
My husband preferred his mother's politics and never became a Republican. One of the things I liked about him right from the start.