#OTD in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person (required by law on a full bus). This sparked the Montgomery bus system boycott & led to the 1956 Supreme Court decision banning segregation on public transportation. A defining moment. #CivilRights
IT'S NOT "REVERSE RACISM" OR "ANTI-WHITE" TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT HISTORY. WHITE MEN COLORED MEN. COLORED. SORRY IT MAKES YOUR ANCESTORS LOOK BAD BUT MAYBE THEY SHOULD'VE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE BEING ASSHOLES. @OhNoSheTwitnt
The crazy part of this story was when he got into West Point in 1932. He's fair-skinned, so they didn't know his race. So when he arrived, they realized that he was mixed, which meant he was black. So they held him in the commandant's office and told him to wait under a sign that said "Duty, Honor, and Country." And they assigned him a converted ja
Civil Debate @civil.debate99 Social Policy & Criminology Analyst. You said that black people make up 13% of the population, 50% of the crime. That is just wrong, but maybe... No, it's actually higher than 50%. I should be way more specific. Yeah, you should be specific. Yeah, I should. That blacks tend to kill more people than Hispanics, whites and
HISTORY HUSTLE In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people. The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to get a PhD in Physics from MIT and became an astronaut. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him.
Am I the only one that didn't know that Frank Sinatra was a big ally to the Black community? Now I knew all about his relationship with Sammy Davis Jr. and the Rat Pack, but his relationship to the Black community is way deeper. So during his time, Las Vegas was heavily segregated. But any restaurant that did not serve Black people, Frank wouldn't
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