Events in Selma, Ala. six decades ago helped win support for the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Today, local activists say they're still fighting stubborn segregation, poverty and gun violence.
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"Helped win support"?? What a weak, insufficient way to describe the situation. People were violently assaulted and murdered, and the country saw it and finally reacted correctly to the horror. Do better with your descriptions.
And one of the marchers in the front row was my hero, Walter Reuther! This was in Detroit, but Walter supported this movement all along. I am a UAW retiree, and I am proud to have him as one of my legacy leaders!
We stand at our own Edmund Pettus Bridge, while democracy bleeds and its so-called guardians wave protest signs like paddles at a silent auction for our rights.
Resolve now—cross, resist, fight—because history won’t remember who held the signs, only who had the courage to march through the fire!
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I actually witnessed a Klan cross burning. In college I worked at the NPR station and our transmitter was just north of Vidor Texas. The Klan was burning a big ass cross about a quarter of a mile from our location. Business as usual in SE Texas.
It helped win support because in 1965 we had a strong free press with real journalist whose job it was to challenge and hold accountable those in power.
I’m in my 40’s, but I work with younger people, and I am amazed that they don’t realize the civil rights movement happened in living memory. That there are people alive today that experienced segregation. That there are people alive today that had to be told by law that black people are ARE people.
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Go someplace else to spread your hate! Diversity, equality and inclusion hurts no ine but people like you who afraid of the truth! Many people of different races are way smarter than any of Maggots could ever pretend to be! And yes I don’t like maggots who think their way is the only way!FY
Photos: James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers.
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We have yet to face, let alone address our national shadow… it takes a special kind of courage to look at the dark side of our national, collective psyche. It’s time!
Selma, as most of Alabama is in crumbles. The city is in shambles, working prospects are horrible. Alabama is horrible. I guess if they can, they should try to move to rather more civilized states, like Illinois, or California.
How many Blacks know who Dr. George Washington Carver was? How many know who Booker T Washington was? How many have read Soul on Ice or the Autobiography of Malcolm X? NOT MANY. Many Blacks r simply headliners. What you know lately. Not enough.
Many Big Blacks do not feel the necessity to get into the ghetto, to meet and greet their own. It is a shame. Many Big Blacks like Oprah present themselves as exceptional. Like not everyone can be like me. Oprah was coddled because of color when she progressed. Not exceptional. She did work hard.
Poverty will end when Big Blacks like Obama, Oprah, Jordan and others teach the ghetto about exceptionalism: thrift, hard work, sobriety. Get married before you produce. Stay married. The activists r living on a night train to nowhere. Entitlement is over.
I think a lot of our problems today are linked to past Democratic racism. And some of those people are still around. Joe "racial jungle" Biden, for example, collaborated with Democratic segregationists.
It was a very successful ploy in Trump's campaign to pay Black people to stand behind him at his rallies, giving the impression that Black people strongly supported him.
It is unconscionable to me that anyone would interfere with our representative democracy. The right to vote is essential. We must Fight to eliminate barriers to voting , stop gun violence and poverty. My gosh it’s horrible what is going on.
All you have to do is look at what they are doing with demonizing DEI and CRT and firing POC in cabinet and military positions. We have an administration and a political party that are white supremacists.
“Stubborn segregation” = conservatives actively removing black people from leadership positions and installing unqualified white guys while NPR pretends it’s normal politics.
We think we’re fighting a Civil War, but what we’re really facing the rise of fascism in our country. Stoking Civil War is a tool for GOP to get to Fascism. GOP doesn’t give a shit about Maga people. Don’t believe me? Who is losing their jobs, healthcare and necessary human services?
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History happened. The Democratic Party changed. Obviously, so did the Republican Party, which is now a fascist mob.
Republican southern strategy: Hey Democrats, vote for Nixon instead (then you can go back and vote for Carter in 1976).
However, the voting data shows there was some truth to that support.