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(65,227 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)This got my eyes wet.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)Mosby
(16,259 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)He had his own incident with the police.
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)to share with DUers.
burrowowl
(17,632 posts)and their cartoons are really good, although some I think you have be to be a New Yorker to understand.
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)Erie Pa. to NYC via Amtrack.
Literally fell in love with the city at first sight.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)without a word.
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)this one will go on the wall.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)On Colin K.s wall to.
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)summer_in_TX
(2,710 posts)as devoted Americans praying for America to live its ideals.
Praying for America should not draw criticism from anyone, I should think. But of course, that leaves out the channel whose mission is to turn Americans against one another.
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)calimary
(81,110 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)Trump will blow a gasket when he sees it!
radicalliberal
(907 posts)I will start to cry.
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,065 posts)Thanks for posting...
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)First one about James Bladwin and his interaction with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Medgar Evers. The second was about how Blacks and some Whites in Birmingham stood up to bull Connor and launched a consumer boycott that brought commerce in the city down 40%. For someone who only read about that era in books, I was amazed at how badly the deck was stacked against Blacks and how bravely Blacks fought back, even when they did so without national notice. When a guy tell you to be out of town before the next sunrise and you know that he can back that up by having you murdered, it takes major cahones to stand up to him even in the smallest ways.
MariaCSR
(642 posts)I'm so grateful to them both for what they did for us.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)The boycott was done by students from the Historically Black Mission College in Birmingham along with some Whites and members of the Birmingham Jewish community. The history is riveting, if you think MLK and John Lewis were alone, the boycotters were very much alone and in peril. Their efforts brought the first real national attention to the struggle, as the Wall Street Journal wrote about the economic downturn the boycott caused. The boycott leader was a laid off autoworker who had gone to college during the layoff. Unfortunately PBS won't rerun the programming for another year, or hopefully during Black History Month, but it can be purchased from PBS, I think.
The history around early efforts at racial justice in Alabama and Mississippi is riveting. Before Doctor King, there was another minister that the segregationists and klan finally intimidated into leaving Alabama for a safer Cleveland Ohio. Trully heartbreaking to know that regular people took on the barbarity of segregation and often lost their lives before the issue gained national attention, they trully fought in the wilderness.
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)standing up against dogs, clubs and gas, and risking their lives.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)That is what angered them about Dr. King and that is what angers them about the NFL. In their racist little pea brains they think "black folk" should be looting and attacking the police. It must be hard when those you think inferior, do something that is so superior. Way to go New Yorker!
orangecrush
(19,414 posts)out of the park with this cover.
Croney
(4,657 posts)orangecrush
(19,414 posts)msdogi
(430 posts)and so touching and beautiful, thanks for posting