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Though federal health agencies are tasked with caring for the public health and protecting peoples' lives, these same agencies ignored these charges in the 1980s in response to an epidemic among mostly gay men is because they did not value those lives. The government and media engaged in a conspiracy of indifference that cost lives. 

On the Revolutionary Organizers podcast, sponsored by Fig Tree Revolution, we will be looking at lesser known people throughout history who have helped to mobilize their communities to create change. This edition we will talk about three women who changed history through a one day boycott of Montgomery's bus system in 1955.