February 20, 1956 ~ Arrest warrants based on a 34-year-old anti-boycott statute were issued for 89 people in the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
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Civil Rights Class week 4
“Our system isn’t broken — it’s designed to do what it’s doing: produce measurable inequity.” [Gary Chambers, a candidate for the US Senate representing Louisiana, in his latest campaign video, “Scars and Bars,” in which he discusses the cruel and destructive legacy of the Confederacy and burns a Confederate flag] I am the American heartbreak—Continue reading “Civil Rights Class week 4”
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 19, 1942 ~ President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, leading to the forced internment of 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry who lived in the western United States.
Photo Class
I enjoy subbing for the photography classes.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 18, 1965 ~ Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old Black man, was shot by a white cop after police attacked a peaceful civil rights protest in Marion, Alabama and died eight days later.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 17, 1947 ~ In Greenville, South Carolina, a mob of white men lynched Willie Earle, a 24-year-old black man. The mob slashed chunks of flesh from his body before blasting him with a shotgun; the 31 men charged were all acquitted.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 16, 1847 ~ Missouri outlawed the education of black people and the immigration of free black people into the state.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 15, 1804 ~ New Jersey passed gradual emancipation act, becoming the last Northern state to abolish slavery.
Day in the History of Racial Injustice
February 14, 1945 ~ All-white grand jury refused to indict any of the six white med accused of raping Mrs. Recy Taylor in Abbeville, Alabama; they are never prosecuted.
Notes from Audio Storytelling for Journalists Class Week 4
I am taking Audio storytelling for journalists: How to tell stories on podcasts, voice assistants, social audio, and beyond” from the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas at the University of Texas at Austin. These are my notes from the third week. How has your idea for an audio project evolved over the course?Continue reading “Notes from Audio Storytelling for Journalists Class Week 4”
Relentless Robin 