“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”Get the Teen Vogue Take.Sign up for theTeen Vogueweekly email.Related:6 Civil Rights Activists You Should Know About that she suffered massive blood loss, and that after three blood transfusions, removal of a fibroid tumor, and a partial hysterectomy, she was on the road to recovery. rooted in white supremacy. For example, in 1917, inEast St. Louis ” Rather than allowing mainstream media to focus on property damage or the nonhuman costs of conditions on the ground in Missouri, organizers shifted the narrative back to the relationship between Black Americans in Ferguson and their political leaders. With their uprising, organizers led over 400 days of direct actions in Ferguson. To this day, the uprising in Ferguson is seen as a critical moment in the Movement for Black Lives.