At 88 years of age, Florence Lodge has spent a life questioning, and if something needed changing, she was always there.  This meant helping others and trying to make positive changes in the world. She led the charge in Washington, NC, to have 4th Street renamed Martin Luther King Drive. The name of the Washington High School Gym was renamed after a former Black basketball coach because of her efforts. If she ever noticed that no Black people were working somewhere, she made sure to point it out to someone and got results. She worked with the sheriff’s department to keep young Black men from going to prison.  She has also been a member of the NAACP since she was 15.  She says when she dies, she wants her kids to proudly say, “My mother was involved with this, or my mother did that.