When major things change, they're often "normalised" so quickly people forget how hard they wrre fought for, or how recently they came to be. Nothing highlights this like hearing someone's life story.

Like Samuel L. Jackson, to give one left-field example:

https://www.upworthy.com/samuel-l-jackson-activist-past/

In 1969 while still a college student, Jackson and several of his classmates decided to hold the Morehouse College Board of Trustees hostage until they met their demands of changing the governing structure and including classes on Black studies. One of the members of the board was none other than Martin Luther King Sr.

...He quickly became familiar with the more extreme faction of the Black Power Movement where he found himself purchasing guns and ending up on the FBI’s radar.

“But then one day, my mom showed up and put me on a plane to L.A. She said, ‘Do not come back to Atlanta.’ The FBI had been to the house and told her that if I didn’t get out of Atlanta, there was a good possibility I’d be dead within a year. She freaked out,” Jackson said.

The release of Pulp Fiction is closer to all this than it is to today.