By Campaign staffer Erika West

As it is the first day of Black History Month and we are now, following her passing, celebrating the life of Coretta Scott King, it is appropriate that we take pause and consider the significance of each.

During the month of February, African Americans, and certainly every American should celebrate not only our greatest achievers, but also how their triumphs came to pass, particularly in the area of social progress.

By this I mean that every change-maker will not lead a march of great social protest, or deliver a soul-stirring oration. Those special ones, those visionaries, led movements that began in a room where they gathered with a few, and eventually more, to begin dialogue, to define a problem, agree to an end, and ultimately, a means to that end.