Following President George W. Bush’s State of The Union address in 2004, the newly minted mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, overheard a conversation in the halls of the Capitol. Two words uttered in that discussion inspired one of the most powerful and peaceful civil rights movements in American history.
Watch the video above to hear Newsom describe the “seed that started the conversations around what became a remarkable month.”
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