In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law, as would the rabid segregationist. That would lead to anarchy. One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty. I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust. [...]
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Rita Schwerner Bender - Crimes of the Civil Rights Era - Harvard Univ. - 27 April 07 [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
US Representative John Lewis Steps Up for GLBT Rights
Many thanks to Pam Spaulding for capturing John Lewis’ speech at Equality Alabama’s gala a couple of weekends ago. John Lewis is an American hero and a powerful speaker; it is fantastic to hear him speaking so strongly on this issue and declaring himself an ally to the GLBT community. John Lewis took batons to [...]
Newly Discovered FBI Files on Jimmie Lee Jackson’s Death
John Flemming from the Anniston Star has discovered important documents from the FBI’s 1965 investigation of the death of Jimmie Lee Jackson. An FBI file about a 1965 shooting that provided a catalyst for the Selma-to-Montgomery March contains eyewitness accounts as well as a statement from the victim, who later died. The file, obtained by [...]
Nuance Via Mullinax
I said a couple of things in my post about the James Bonard Fowler indictment that really deserve more nuance. Fortunately Kenneth Mullinax wrote an article last week that hits some of the notes that I missed. I emphasized the importance of prosecution of the Fowler indictment for Jimmie Lee Jackson’s family, but I overstated [...]
After 42 Years, an Indictment for Jimmie Lee Jackson
From the NY Times: A grand jury in Alabama handed up an indictment on Wednesday in an obscure killing that helped inspire the historic Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965. The case is the latest in a series of belated prosecutions of crimes from the civil rights era.In February 1965, a black farmer, Jimmie Lee Jackson, 26, [...]
Rita Schwerner Bender - Crimes of the Civil Rights Era - Harvard Univ. - 27 April 07 [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWho Killed Jimmie Lee Jackson?
My new article came out today in the Black Commentator. Here is the opening section: The Black Commentator September 21, 2006 – Issue 198 Who Killed Jimmie Lee Jackson? by Benjamin Greenberg Guest Commentator Jimmie Lee Jackson did not live to see his grandfather, Cager Lee, finally receive a voting card in his early 80s [...]
For Linda
By Marsha Rose Joyner For: Linda From: MarshaRose “Child of pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love gift of a fairy tale”. by Lewis Carroll Time and distance dims memories! And we all [...]
“[I]t wouldn’t surprise me if we both got up to dance.”
I wish I could show you one of Linda’s photographs. I wrote to one of Linda’s dearest friends, Marsha Joyner (who publishes on HungryBlues from time to time) that Linda had a genius for seeing the beauty in people. This was evident in many ways, but it was really striking in her photographs. To what [...]
Scott B. Smith and Linda Dehnad
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“Another SNCC warrior has died.”
Those were the first words from Scott B. Smith, Jr when he reached me on the phone earlier this afternoon. He wanted to inform me and all who knew her that Linda Dehnad, his wife, died this morning of undetermined causes at age 69. Linda went to Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, AL last night because [...]
The Bus
By Donnie Williams Because of Rosa Parks and many of the unknown Montgomery residents that were involved in the bus boycott and a lot more, Montgomery is a better place but we need to be better. The Rosa Parks bus, the real one, is in Detroit at the Henry Ford Museum. It used to be [...]
Workers In The Vineyard
By Marsha Joyner Former President of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Coalition-Hawaii, Marsha Joyner, has name inscribed on the “Wall of Tolerance” at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama 10-2005 We came in road-weary VW Buses, with backpacks and sleeping bags, willing to sleep on any floor, withstand certain adversity, every abuse and [...]
Montgomery, Alabama — 1956
(Via Marsha Joyner.) Ted Poston, “They Are No Longer Afraid.” The New York Post June 19, 1956. You’d been living with [the bus boycott] daily for nearly three weeks in Montgomery, but you couldn’t quite put your finger on it. Only through the words of others were you finally able to articulate a feeling, which [...]
She Was Much More Than That
I don’t have a TV, so it was Brandon who tipped me off that Julian Bond was one of the speakers at the Capital Rotunda, while Rosa Parks was lying in state. As usual, Bond is excellent—giving a nuanced treatment of Parks’ life and exploding the myth that the nonviolent movement and those who advocated [...]
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