Every time there's a special day, week or month to celebrate, for example, the contributions of Black people, women (this is Women's History Month), or LGBTQ individuals, there's an uproar from certain quadrants.

"When's men's history month? What about white history month?"

Sigh. That would be all the time, actually, but recognition of anyone else is apparently too much. From the beginning of our nation, white men have held the majority of the power, though at first it was limited to landowners. It took a very long time for others to gain the rights those white men had from the start. Ignoring what had to happen for those rights to be extended to all would be shortchanging history, and an insult to the memories of those who fought and sometimes died for them.

Despite all that was stacked against them, many prevailed over prejudices and proved they deserved the same rights to vote, to own property, to do just about anything else allowed under the law. They demonstrated that they were brave, brilliant and daring, as well as compassionate.

And they didn't just fight for themselves, but for all. Ruth Bader Ginsburg is often cited as instrumental to many extensions of rights for women, but the first case she argued in court, according to Smithsonian Magazine, was a tax case in which a........

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