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On February 1, 1960, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, all students at NC A&T, staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's on Elm Street wanting to protest segregation laws. Blair said, “We didn’t want to set the world on fire, we just wanted to eat.”
Two days later twenty more students joined with more joining each passing day, and the protest soon spread throughout the south.
On July 25, 1960, Woolworth's began serving African Americans with the first people served being the African American lunch counter staff themselves. Within a week, over 300 were served.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
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Canon FD 35mm f/2 concave, taken at f/5.6
Europe, The Netherlands, Zuid Holland, Maritiem Distrct, Wijnhaven Eiland, Residential high rise, Facade (uncut)
Shown here is the residential high-rise 100Hoog (2013, Klunder Architecten, corner Wijnstraat and Posthoornstraat). Its height is 105.5 meters (33 floors). It consists of 152 owner-occupied apartments in the mid and high price brackets. The Wijnhaven redevelopment hasn’t offered affordable housing. No surprise in these neo-conservative times. Notable is that all apartments will have outdoor spaces (balconies or terraces). There will be 165 parking spaces for residents on the first and second floors. It is located on the transformed Wijnhaven Eiland.
The backstory:
In the 1980s, it became evident that the strictly functionalistic urban design of the post-World War II Rotterdam city centre no longer met the needs. In the first post-war decades, it did enhance functionality, offering a clear break from the congestion and other development problems of the pre-war city centre. And its morphology offered the symbolism of a brave new world. However, due to the 60s and 70s social-economic boom and the rise of consumerism, the strict segregation of living, business and administration made the city's heart feel like a place that didn't seem to live and breathe.
It was simply too high on business and too low on living and recreation. One of the programs to rectify this was the R'dam high-rise policy - the insertion of a series of high-density up-market apartment buildings in and near the city centre.
This is number 704 of Rotterdam architecture and 100 of Façades.
Don’t Tread On Me, God Damn, Let’s Go!— The Harlem Hellfighters is Butler’s largest quilt to date, measuring approximately 11 x 13 feet, and features nine life-sized figures. Through her striking portrait, Butler seeks to bring dignity to soldiers who faced segregation, racism, and injustice once they returned home.
This Canada Day is a very special one for me. It is my first such celebration living abroad, and it reminds me of how my ancestors arrived in Canada to begin with: some from France, some from Ukraine. From the town of Périgueux in the south of France in the second half of the 17th century, and from the small village of Ulychne near Lviv, Ukraine in 1903, among many other locations across the family tree. Canadian culture is established from is a rich cultural mosaic across the globe, including those indigenous to North America.
Today is a day to celebrate the birth of Canada as a nation, but I also believe it’s a day to celebrate the growth, change, and responsibility that Canada has showcased in recent years. I will not deny that the past can be painful; stories of slavery, residential schools, segregation, gender inequality, and countless examples of unequal rights for people because of their beliefs and orientations. We’ve come a long way, and the path forward continues in front of us. I am proud of the progress seen during the lifetime of my ancestors, and during mine.
As Canadian heritage is often associated with global origins, I remember moments in the past about how Canada has been a nation that makes the world a better place. One such example happened at the end of World War 2: Operation Manna. The Netherlands was occupied by the Nazis and they would not allow the transport of food into the region, forcing the entire population into starvation. Canadian Farley Mowat (later to become a famous writer) was among the allies who negotiated with the German commander-in-chief, Johannes Blaskowitz, to allow Avro Lancaster bombers to fly low over Nazi-occupied territory to drop bags of food. The promise was that they would be dropping only food, with the counter-promise that they would not be fired on. Countless lives were saved in this operation, which was later joined by the United States in Operation Chowhound.
Canada has long since been a keeper of peace around the world, typically finding ways to avoid conflict and ensure prosperity. Some of these projects were a mixed bag (like the road construction projects in Afghanistan), while others were remarkably successful, including UN efforts to bring peace to Central America post-Cold War. Now, the peacekeeping efforts are focused on Eastern Europe, where I also now call home; The border to Ukraine is a 350km drive from where we live. This is a much different approach to peace, however.
In 2014, Canada was helping Ukraine with non-violent aid: night-vision equipment, bullet-proof vests, and other protective gear. That changed this year, and here is a breakdown of what has been sent, when: ploughshares.ca/2022/06/canadian-military-aid-to-ukraine-.... On that list we can see meals, funding for satellite surveillance, gas masks, but most importantly: weapons and ammunition. This includes M982 “Excalibur” munition for the M777 howitzers that were sent, and I single this out as a specific thing I’m proud of.
You can read more about it here ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M982_Excalibur ). This is a GPS-guided precision artillery round that can be used “in situations where targets might be prohibitively close to civilians to attack with conventional unguided artillery fire”. Using this ammunition will save innocent lives. If the war must be fought, and it must, then strike the enemy with surgical precision. I sincerely hope Canada will send more alongside the replacement barrels for the artillery units.
The world dances a delicate ballet around this current existential conflict in Ukraine, careful not to trigger an even more catastrophic event. Prior to February 24th, Canadian Special Forces were training Ukrainian soldiers in their homeland. We’ve equipped them with the best tools to fight that we can provide. I know that the Ukrainian diaspora in Canada is proud of this, while simultaneously wishing for more to be done.
Some people might say “fighting a war is the opposite of peace”. If Ukraine stops fighting, it ceases to exist. The path to peace here is not an easy one. This Canada Day, I’ll be reflecting on all the ways that Canada has helped the world, including Ukraine. This includes during war, but also during peace. Canada's international assistance spending increased by 27% to CAD$8.4 billion in 2021. More is being done to make the world a better place.
Is it a perpetual shining example of how the world should work? No. You won’t find that anywhere, except maybe Northern Europe and New Zealand. Canada needs to get it’s act together about climate change, as an example ( climateactiontracker.org/countries/canada/ ). Political influence from the United States has also created a greater ideological rift in the nation, and I’ve never voted for a politician that I could truly trust. However, Canada is a great example of a country that can evolve and change to meet the needs of its people and the world.
While I have chosen to live abroad, I am Canadian. Happy Canada Day to all those Canadians around the globe. Let’s all try to make the world a better place.
A portrait of Laddie. Please don't forget to take part in #PROUDTOPICKUP. I have been picking up after my dog for nearly 20 years now and during that time no one has ever said Thank You, makes you think. We really have to think beyond archaic dogs on lead bylaws and exclusion zones which belong in the dustbin of history alongside Apartheid and Segregation. Welcome to the 21st Century, To show you can achieve more with education than enforcement I am asking everyone of my contacts on Flickr to post a picture of themselves with their dogs and holding a bag of dog muck and post it on their social media and nominate six friends to do the same and use the hashtag #PROUDTOPICKUP . If you aren't blessed with a dog at this moment in time please take a shot of yourself placing litter in a bin. It's to take the embarrassment and stigma out of picking up and stop it being a furtive chore. Have fun with it.
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The Booker T. Motel was determined to be eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places (MRHP) under criterion A for its significance in African-American history and commerce in Humboldt, Tennessee. The period of significance for the Booker T. Motel (also known as the Booker T. "Colored" Motel and Restaurant) extends from 1954, the year the motel was constructed, through 1970, when ownership changed hands from Mr. Alfred Pulliam to Mr. Ollie Armour. During the period of significance, accommodations for traveling African-Americans were few and far between. Strategically, the motel was located near the intersection of U.S. Highways 79 and 70A just blocks from Humboldt’s business district and in the heart of the historically African-American community. The establishment became one of the few places African-Americans could stop and stay while traveling between Memphis and Nashville. The motel had the distinction of being advertised in the Green Book (The Negro Travelers Green Book originated in New York by mail carrier Victor H. Green in 1937 to give African-American’s direction on where they could stop or stay along their route to avoid unwanted dangers) and was featured in Ebony magazine article in 1955 titled “Hotels on the Highway”. The motel’s barbeque restaurant was also one of the only places in the area where African-American guests did not have to enter through a segregated back door and is an important example of a Black-owned barbeque restaurant.
An October 8, 1953 Jackson Sun (Jackson, TN newspaper) article announced that Humboldt “will shortly have the only Negro tourist court between Memphis and Nashville.” The article said that the motel would be “for the accommodation of colored people only”, would be located “on lower Main Street, and attributed the “unique name of this latest addition to the local business institutions is in honor, of course, of the founder and first president of the Tuskegee Institute, Dr. Booker T. Washington.” The motel opened with a formal dedication ceremony on January 31, 1954. According to an announcement in the Jackson Sun, the “general public, white and Negro,” were invited to attend the event which marked “another ‘first’ for Humboldt and probably also a first for the entire state.” The Green Book documents that there were other at least eighteen hotels throughout the state that served African-American visitors, but none were described as a motel. An original Booker T. Motel advertising sign is in the National Museum of African American History and Culture to tell the story of African-American travel in the mid-twentieth century. And, there are no other known African-American motels in Tennessee, rendering the Booker T. Motel a rare surviving monument to the struggle African-Americans endured during segregation and a historically significant, vital commercial enterprise in Tennessee’s African American history.
On July, 25, 2018, the Booker T. Motel was officially added to the NRHP. All of the information above (and much more) was found on the original documents submitted for listing consideration and can be viewed here:
npgallery.nps.gov/NRHP/AssetDetail/aa7208e2-5716-4c26-9f7...
Three bracketed photos were taken with a handheld Nikon D7200 and combined with Photomatix Pro to create this HDR image. Additional adjustments were made in Photoshop CS6.
"For I know the plans I have for you", declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." ~Jeremiah 29:11
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It was an inmate rebellion without a plan, without leadership and without goals. There were few heroes, plenty of villains and many victims.
When State Police marched into the Penitentiary of New Mexico on Feb. 3, 1980, they didn't retake the prison from rioting inmates so much as they occupied the charred shell after the riot had burned itself out.
Thirty-three inmates were found dead inside -- some of them horribly butchered by their fellow prisoners.
The emergency room at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe was overwhelmed with more than 100 inmates -- some beaten, others suffering from drug overdoses.
Eight of the 12 guards who had been taken hostage were treated for injuries. Surprisingly, none of the guards was killed.
It was a black mark on New Mexico history as the nation was captivated by the horror stories that dribbled out of
Santa Fe. The riot began in the early morning hours of Saturday, Feb. 2, when guards entered dormitory E-2 on the south side of the Prison. The door to the dormitory wasn't locked, in violation of prison security procedures. Neither was a hallway gate that led to the prison control room. Four guards were taken hostage during the first few minutes of the riot.
In all, there were 15 guards on duty inside the prison that night, supervising more than 1,100 inmates.
Inmates rushed down the main corridor and broke the shatterproof glass at the control center. The guard on duty fled, leaving behind keys that could open most of the prison gates and doors.
The inside of the prison became a nightmare of violence. One Associated Press reporter later described it in a story distributed worldwide as a "merry-go-round gone crazy."
Fires were set. Inmates ripped out plumbing fixtures, flooding parts of the prison. Other inmates got into the infirmary and began taking drugs. Others began hunting their enemies, and found them.
The National guard at the Penitentiary
Sometime around 8 a.m. that Saturday morning, inmates began using tools from the prison to gain access to cellblock 4, which housed the "snitches" and inmates in protective segregation. The "snitches" met a horrible end.
One was hung from the upper tier of the cellblock, another decapitated. Most of the 33 inmates killed were from the segregation unit.
Early Saturday morning, fitful negotiations began with some inmate leaders. Ambulances shuttled the dead and injured to St. Vincent. Smoke poured out of the prison gymnasium.
It became clear later that neither the inmates nor the state had a single spokesman during the negotiations. Eventually, inmates made 11 basic demands. Some concerned basic prison conditions like overcrowding, inmate discipline, educational services and improving food. They also wanted outside witnesses -- federal officials and the news media.
Hostage guards were released. Some of the guards had been protected by inmates; others were brutally beaten. "One was tied to a chair. Another lay naked on a stretcher, blood pouring from a head wound," a Journal reporter wrote. Negotiations broke off about 1 a.m. Sunday and state officials insisted no concessions had been made. But the riot, fueled by drugs and hate, was running out of gas.
Later Sunday morning, inmates began to trickle out of the prison, seeking refuge at the fence where National Guardsmen stood with their M-16s. Black inmates led the exodus from the smoldering cellblocks, staying in groups large enough to defend themselves from other inmates.
It was over.
From the Attorney General's Report
Shortly before 2 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 1980, inmates at the Penitentiary of New Mexico near Santa Fe overpowered four correctional officers ... in a medium security dormitory. The inmates rushed through the open dormitory door and, within minutes, captured four more officers.
Using keys taken from the officers, inmates freed fellow prisoners ... then moved through an open grill gate to the administrative area ... smashed their way into the main control center (and gained) access to every part of the main penitentiary building where 1,157 male inmates were under the custody and care of 25 correctional employees.
In the 36 hours that followed, 12 officers were held hostage, some of them beaten, stabbed and sodomized. Thirty-three inmates died at the hands of fellow prisoners, some of the victims were tortured and their bodies mutilated. At least 90 other inmates were seriously injured in the riot, suffering from drug overdoses or beatings, stabbings and rapes inflicted by other convicts. Most of the inmates had escaped to the outside of the walls by the time the riot was over.
Prison officials communicated with inmates throughout the weekend in an effort to negotiate the release of the hostage officers and the surrender of the inmates. By 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3, 1980, the violence had spent itself; police and National Guardsmen retook the penitentiary without resistance.
(copied form the ghost huntes of NM website
The "Zeche Nachtigall" is a former coal mine in Witten-Bommern.
The mine was also known under the name coalmine Nachtigal in the Hetberge, colliery nightingale in the Hedtberge, trade union in the Hedtberge and coal bank in the Hettberger wood.
The mine is in Witten-Bommern at the entrance of the Muttental and is a part of the mining footpath Muttental.
The was one of the biggest civil engineering colliery of the region. On the mine were diminished in the civil engineering fat coal rich in piece which had a good quality. Today is the colliery a museum.
Small colliery were stone coal pits whose staff, equipment and production far lie under their one big mines. Most of all it concerned pure tunnel companies (without segregation shafts).
The ancient Greeks were naked or rode on horseback, nor, even approximately, looked like an idealized images. Judging by the average Greek osteoarheološkom material was a stocky, robust, relatively short legs.
How, then, the Greek art defines a man? Aristophanes legendary winners of the marathon describes: smooth chest, bright skin, big shoulders, a short tongue, a big butt and a small penis (Clouds, 1011-13). The man was naked, a woman, until the beginning of Hellenism Praksitela and mostly dressed. Only with a few exceptions, all the Greek artists, and all the ancient authors who wrote about nijma men. Greek world, as we know it today, is a male world, and the state, the polis, the patriarchal concept of involving only adult congenital men. Publicly displayed works of art, especially sculpture and architecture are much more addressing the man, but a woman. All of this points to one, relationship between the audience and watched in Greek art becomes the relationship between Erastus and eromena, beloved and lover, in which the sculpture (or pictures) eromen, junior partner in a homosexual relationship, which is passive, perhaps, accentuated reduced penis . Does this mean that Partenonski frieze procession desirable homosexual partners? Worth it just for the tens of thousands of kouros, a sculpture of naked boys who are like tombstones stood all over the Greek world? It is obvious that we can not Greek construction of corporeality and sexuality measure today's standards, but the affinity that our culture is shown to the classics (Twentieth Century, however, follows the trend of abandonment of traditional forms) are not missed. Later, we see that there, although there is a huge gap of misunderstanding, many points of contact between modern and Greek civil taste.
When we talk about the relationship of the human body, with all their needs, and cultural norms, are talking also about how integration in society. The basic form of the Greek society is distinct homosocijalnost, and for the Greek polis, we can rightly say that the men's club, while all other social groups condemned the segregation (women, foreigners), or completely off (the slaves). Unlike the Eastern civilizations, where distant and invisible to authorities govern the lives of its subjects, the polis, which is completely independent and self-sufficient entity, a man (man) becomes visible, palpable agent in the creation of the state. However, this task is not easy. Greek soldier, farmer or tradesman, a voter, a full-fledged citizen, all in one. Tensions emerged that many contradictory roles that the Greeks had to exercise can be felt in the description of the Athenian demos from around 400 BC AD: capricious, choleric, unjust, inconstant, but also accommodating, compassionate, sympathetic, boastful, conceited, humble, gentle and wild, all in one. (Gas NH 35th 69) Not surprisingly, therefore, that neither Plato nor Aristotle placed him in a democracy are not desirable and equitable social order.
The woman was in the polis became the antithesis of a positive, active, male principle. At the Parthenon on the two places could see the struggle of the Greeks against the dangerous female troupe, the Amazons (the metopes and the Athena's shield), while in the temple, on the podium Athens Partenos there view of creating the first woman, Pandora, which, as we have learned from Hesiod, gods created as an evil for men. The final showdown with the role and position of women in Athenian society has been registered on the mythological level, the story about the trial of Orestes, murderer of the mother. The lawsuit was Apollos' argument prevailed, thanks to Athena's casting vote, that the woman just groove in which a man throws seed, and that she does not play a role in inheritance and does not determine the future no man. Orestes is, therefore, solely responsible father as a single parent. However, when you mention all the art and mythology of all, we know that these are fields in which most reflects the state ideology. The role of women in Greek society was hidden, but very important, as today in some areas of the Mediterranean. But what we are currently most interested in is to be very long portrayed women as revised (incomplete) man, and that odjevenost its natural state. It seems that the show (and show), femininity was particularly limited, and that is seen as subversive in a strictly male polis.
The fundamental tension that permeates the polis and who is much involved in the construction of Greek mythology, literature and culture in general, the conflict of the individual and authority, and desire and the law. Characteristically, the civil society of equal to the materialism and competitiveness rises ambitious and egotistical individual who lust for the material is transformed into the desire for all the pleasures available to him. Greeks see such a symposium, spree that has become a central ritual of civic life, where the drinking and the competition in elegance and wisdom of engaging in all possible sexual pleasures. Quite different is the Greek who walks under the heavy weapons as part of a faceless phalanx. Pressed and pushed the bodies completely lost personality, and the only thing left is his awareness of obedience to the strict requirements of the battleship row, which only he can ensure survival. His body, which plays a central role in his worldview, it is now part of a large body of the polis, and above it no longer has any power. When Plato says: What in fact what most people call it peace (...) is just empty words, and things are by nature all of the state (polis) in nenaviještenom constant war with all countries. (Laws 626-a), does this mean that peace is an unnatural, perhaps even more dangerous state of war? It is obvious that the constant uncertainty of war has a strong role in the cohesion policy. Uniformed and hardly moving phalanx carries a clear message to the necessity of unity and submission to the community.
Segregation even after life ends.
I never even knew this section existed. Taken from the side road of the newer part of the cemetery.
Luminar 4 Sky replacement and lightning although I think if I wait until the weekend there’ll be plenty of the real stuff about.
EN: Kilmainham Gaol, in Irish "Príosún Chill Mhaighneann", is a former prison, located in Kilmainham in Dublin, which is now a museum. It has been run since the mid-1980s by the Office of Public Works (O.P.W.), an Irish Government agency. Kilmainham Gaol played an important part in Irish history, as many leaders of Irish rebellions were imprisoned and some executed in the prison by the British and latterly in 1923 by the Irish Free State.
When the Gaol was first built public hangings took place at the front of the Gaol. However, from the 1820s onward very few hangings, public or private, took place at Kilmainham. A small hanging cell was built in the gaol in 1891. It is located on the first floor, between the West Wing and the East Wing.
There was no segregation of prisoners; men, women and children were incarcerated up to 5 in each cell, with only a single candle for light and heat, most of their time was spent in the cold and the dark. The candle had to last the prisoner for two weeks. Its cells were roughly 28 meters squared.
Children were sometimes arrested for petty theft, the youngest said to be a seven year-old boy, while many of the adult prisoners were deported to Australia.
At Kilmainham the poor conditions in which women prisoners were kept provided the spur for the next stage of development. Remarkably, for an age that prided itself on a protective attitude for the 'weaker sex', the conditions for women prisoners were persistently worse than for men. As early as his 1809 report the Inspector had observed that male prisoners were supplied with iron bedsteads while females 'lay on straw on the flags in the cells and common halls.' Half a century later there was little improvement. The women's section, located in the west wing, remained overcrowded.
ES: Kilmainham Gaol, en irlandés "Príosún Chill Mhaighneann", era una cárcel situada en Inchicore, en Dublín, reconvertida hoy en museo.
La cárcel se inauguró en 1796 denominándose New Gaol debido a que sustituía a la antigua cárcel situada unos cuantos cientos de metros de ella.
Kilmainham Gaol ha jugado un importante papel en la historia de Irlanda ya que muchos de los líderes de las revueltas de independencia de Irlanda fueron confinados y recluidos en esta prisión. Muchos de estos presos fueron además ejecutados en esta misma prisión. Las rebeliones de 1798, 1803, 1848, 1867 y 1916 acabaron con sus cabecillas en estas celdas recluídos.
El último preso de la cárcel fue Éamon de Valera que salió de la cárcel el 16 de julio de 1924.
Dentro de la cárcel no había separación de prisioneros por cuestión de sexo ni de edad, así tanto los hombres como las mujeres convivían en las mismas zonas igual que los niños.
En el año 1924 la cárcel se cerró definitivamente sufriendo una remodelación de la década de los 70.
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McRae, Telfair County GA. This ultra-kitschy theatre was named for Telfair County's favorite son, Eugene Talmadge. The "Wild Man from Sugar Creek" begat a dubious political dynasty after marrying money, then serving as Commissioner of Agriculture and arguably the most popular and powerful governor in Georgia's history. McRae's homes and churches are very beautiful, but if this is the best tribute they can pay ol' Gene, I wonder about their sense of history... On a personal note, Eugene's son, the late Georgia governor and US Senator Herman Talmadge was a regular and engaging correspondent of mine late in his life. His family had been peripherally associated with my great-grandfather's family in Scotland, Georgia, in the early 1900s.
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By Brian Brown, Fitzgerald, Georgia
I am the god of fuck, i am the god of fuck
virgins sold in quantity, herded by heredity
red-neck-burn-out-mid-west-mind, "who said date rape isn't kind?"
porno-nation, evaluation
what's this, "time for segregation"
libido, libido fascination, too much oral defication
white trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy
time for cake and sodomy
(I am the god of fuck, i am the god of fuck)
vcr's and vasoline, tv-fucked by plastic queens
cash in hand and dick on screen, who said god was ever clean?
bible-belt 'round anglo-waste, putting sinners in their place
yeah, right, great if you're so good explain the shit stains on your face
white trash get down on your knees, time for cake and sodomy
time for cake and sodomy
~Marilyn Manson~
a7rii + Enna München Braun Color Ennit SLK 1:2.8/50 (1961; Braun Paxette Super III Automatic; Paxette Prontor mount)
This was the mansion of Robert Augustus Toombs (1810-1885), American Southern antebellum politician, an ardent secessionist who served the Confederacy as Secretary of State and as a general. During Reconstruction, the "unreconstructed rebel" sought to restore white supremacy in Georgia.
Locations and landmarks named after Robert Toombs:
Toombs County, Georgia: Established in 1905, this county is named to honor Toombs' contributions as a politician and Confederate leader.
Toomsboro, Georgia: A town with a name derived from Toombs, reflecting his influence in the region.
Wilkin County, Minnesota: Originally named Toombs County before its renaming in 1858, it reflects Toombs' early prominence.
Toombs Judicial Circuit: This judicial circuit includes several counties in Georgia (Glascock, Lincoln, McDuffie, Taliaferro, Warren, and Wilkes) and is named after him.
Robert Toombs House State Historic Site: Located in Washington, Georgia, this historic site was Toombs' home and is now a museum that showcases his life and contributions. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated as a National Historic Landmark.
Camp Toombs: A military training base in Toccoa, Georgia, used during World War II by Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Regiment.
Robert Toombs Christian Academy: A private school in Lyons, Georgia, established during the era of segregation and named after him.
SS Robert Toombs: A Liberty Ship launched in 1943 that served during World War II before being scrapped. Another vessel was renamed SS Robert Toombs after being sold out of federal service.
The Robert Toombs Mansion
Washington, Wilkes County, Georgia USA
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Hair Ice associated with the fungus Exidiopsis effusa on the South Downs, South Downs National Park, West Sussex England
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Event attendee Blanca Rosa Rodriguez and author/speaker Philippa Strum with the new book, Mendez V. Westminster: School Desegregation and Mexican-American Rights (http://bbpbooks.teachingforchange.org/book/9780700617197). Photo by Raisa Camargo, Hispanic Link www.hispaniclink.org
Macon, Bibb County GA. Built by Charles Douglass, the son of an ex-slave, this historic African-American theatre hosted some of the most famous black performers of the twentieth century. Otis Redding first came to attention here in 1958 on Hamp Swain's radio talent show, "The Teenage Hour".
The Jackson Rooming House, also known as Jackson House, is a historic building constructed in 1901 as a boarding house in the city of Tampa, in the U.S. state of Florida. It provided accommodations to African-Americans and other travelers of African descent during the era of racial segregation. It is located on the north end of downtown at 851 Zack Street, approximately one block west of Tampa Union Station. On March 7, 2007, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The Jackson Rooming House was one of the only places in Tampa where black travelers could find lodging, as they were not accepted in standard hotels of the day. The 24-room establishment began as a six-room cottage built by Moses and Sarah Jackson in 1901. Soon after, they added bedrooms and a second story in order to operate the rooming house, which remained in business until 1989. The Jacksons' children inherited the business and the home remains in the possession of one of the Jacksons' grandchildren.
During its time the Jackson House played host to several prominent entertainers, including Count Basie, Cab Calloway, James Brown, Ella Fitzgerald, and Ray Charles. Acts such as these would come to play the nightclubs of Tampa's black business district, which thrived nearby along Central Avenue until the 1960s.
During the urban renewal of the 1970s most of the neighborhood surrounding the house was razed. By 2007, when the house was added to the NRHP, the Jackson House was believed to be the last free-standing residential dwelling in downtown Tampa.
In 2013, the Jackson House was deemed too damaged to be restored and faced likely demolition. In 2013, efforts were being made to save the historic Rooming House from demolition by the City of Tampa. As of January 13, 2014, Todd Alan Clem, commonly known as Bubba the Love Sponge, planned to purchase this property and begin the restoration of the house. Soon afterwards, Clem withdrew plans blaming mayor Bob Buckhorn and city officials. The Jackson House Foundation estimates that it will cost about a million dollars to restore the building.
NRHP 07000112
(Wikipedia)
This is a simple image of an Icelandic river, well of a part of it where the sediments of the glacial water leave impressive stains in the volcanic soil.
But this is also the cover image of a world gone mad. Of a world facing global warming. Of a world losing its morals and political turmoil. Of a world with segregation and racism. Of a world fighting a pandemic. Of a world, yet so beautiful and so precious, and the only one we have. Hope!
The first name that came into my mind for this image was ‘Sauron’ (in a 3x2 crop the bottom part resembled an iris, but ultimately I decided to simplify the composition and put more emphasis on the fire like upper part. Hence the name and reference to the legendary Billy Joel song.
By Kai Hornung
Little India is commonly known as Tekka in the Indian Singaporean community. Little India is distinct from the Chulia Kampong area, which, under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, was originally a division of colonial Singapore where ethnic Indian immigrants would reside under the British policy of ethnic segregation. However, as Chulia Kampong became more crowded and competition for land escalated, many ethnic Indians moved into what is now known as Little India.
May 17, 1954
Brown v. Board of Ed
The Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in public educational facilities is unconstitutional.
As promised, a sheep rainbow. :D
Alternate titles- Lucky Sheep
Grass Isnt Always Greener
Roy the Super-Sheep
He beaa-t me to the punch
Sheep Segregation
March 5th, 2009
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Little India is commonly known as Tekka in the Indian Singaporean community. Little India is distinct from the Chulia Kampong area, which, under the Raffles Plan of Singapore, was originally a division of colonial Singapore where ethnic Indian immigrants would reside under the British policy of ethnic segregation. However, as Chulia Kampong became more crowded and competition for land escalated, many ethnic Indians moved into what is now known as Little India.
This weekend it’s Carnival in Hammarkullen. Hammarkullen is a surburb of Göteborg with a majority of immigrants. The Carnival of Hammarkullen has been a yearly event since 1974. It has become a huge arrangement with thousands of participants in the carnival, and 40 000 to 50 000 spectators not only from Göteborg but also from other parts of the country. For many people in Hammarkullen, particulary young women, this is the most important event of the year, and they spend the long dark swedish winter making up their carnival costumes and practise the dances. Hammarkullen is a surburb that's often associated with segregation, unemployment, youth criminality and social problems. But the Carnival is a vibrant and vivid proof of the vigour, creativity and overwhelming abundance of human cultural capital in this surburb with inhabitants from 126 countries in the world. The pictures here are from yesterday.
The glass ceiling is a barrier "so subtle that it is transparent, yet so strong that it prevents women from moving up the corporate hierarchy." From their vantage point on the corporate ladder, women can see the high-level corporate positions but are kept from "reaching the top".
One could be forgiven for thinking that the photo represents a specimen of P. x 'Buzios' . Indeed, I rescued the seedling as a volunteer from my asparagus bed at the allotment. I noticed as it grew that the leaves displayed marginal leaf glands like P. mucronata and this bloom significantly has yellow not white pollen unlike the P. racemosa side of its pedigree.
The history of redlining in Baltimore, Maryland, is both significant and illustrative of the broader systemic racism that shaped urban development across the United States. Baltimore played a key role in the evolution of racially discriminatory housing policies. Here’s a detailed outline of that history:
I. Early Roots of Housing Segregation in Baltimore
A.
Nation’s First Racial Zoning Law (1910)
In 1910, Baltimore became the first U.S. city to pass a racial zoning ordinance, mandating that Black residents could not move onto blocks where whites were the majority and vice versa.
This ordinance was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1917 (Buchanan v. Warley), but the mindset and intent behind it continued in subtler forms.
B.
Restrictive Covenants (1920s–1940s)
Private contracts called restrictive covenants were widely used to prevent Black people and other minorities from buying or renting homes in white neighborhoods.
These covenants were supported by real estate boards and neighborhood associations, often promoted by the Baltimore Real Estate Board.
The Supreme Court declared such covenants unenforceable in 1948 (Shelley v. Kraemer), though they remained influential.
II. Federal Redlining and the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC)
A.
1930s HOLC “Residential Security Maps”
The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) created maps of U.S. cities in the 1930s to assess the risk of mortgage lending. Baltimore’s map (1937) is a stark example.
Neighborhoods were color-coded:
Green (“Best”) – Wealthy, white, new suburbs.
Blue (“Still Desirable”)
Yellow (“Definitely Declining”)
Red (“Hazardous”) – Usually older, inner-city areas with Black or immigrant populations.
The red areas were denied access to mortgage loans—this is where the term “redlining” comes from.
B.
Impact on Baltimore
Virtually all Black neighborhoods in Baltimore were redlined.
Black families could not access federally backed home loans, driving disinvestment in those communities.
The map institutionalized racial segregation and underdevelopment.
III. Post-WWII Suburbanization and Segregation
A.
White Flight and Suburban Growth
Federal policies like the GI Bill and FHA loans enabled white families to move to suburban developments (like Levittown, MD, and others), while Black families were excluded.
Baltimore’s Black residents were confined to aging, overcrowded inner-city areas.
B.
Urban Renewal and Displacement
“Urban renewal” in the mid-20th century (especially in the 1950s–70s) demolished Black neighborhoods in the name of progress (e.g., highway construction, public housing).
Examples: Old West Baltimore was cut off by the construction of Highway 40 (the “Highway to Nowhere”), displacing thousands.
Public housing projects like Lexington Terrace and Murphy Homes became concentrated zones of poverty.
IV. Civil Rights Era and Legal Challenges
A.
Protests and Activism
Baltimore was active in the Civil Rights Movement. Activists fought against housing discrimination, school segregation, and employment inequality.
B.
Lawsuits and Policy Changes
In the 1970s and 1980s, lawsuits challenged discriminatory housing policies.
Example: The Thompson v. HUD case (filed in 1995) accused the federal government of continuing segregation through public housing policy. The court ruled that HUD had failed to affirmatively further fair housing.
V. Long-Term Consequences of Redlining
A.
Persistent Racial Wealth Gap
Redlining kept Black families from building generational wealth through homeownership.
Today, Black Baltimoreans are far less likely to own homes than white residents, and property values are often lower in formerly redlined neighborhoods.
B.
Health and Education Disparities
Redlined areas today correlate with poor health outcomes, underfunded schools, and environmental hazards.
Lack of investment has led to deteriorating infrastructure and social services in those communities.
C.
Modern-Day Segregation
Despite the end of formal redlining, racial segregation in Baltimore remains stark.
Neighborhoods often still reflect the 1937 HOLC map in terms of racial demographics, income, and opportunity.
VI. Current Efforts and Reckoning
A.
Mapping Inequality and Public Awareness
Projects like the “Mapping Inequality” initiative (University of Richmond) have digitized HOLC maps, helping visualize historical redlining’s legacy.
Baltimore organizations, universities, and city government have launched equity-based planning and housing justice initiatives.
B.
Equity and Reparative Policy
Proposals include affordable housing, reinvestment in marginalized neighborhoods, tenant protections, and reparative justice approaches.
In 2021, Baltimore acknowledged racial zoning and redlining’s role in creating inequality and pledged to address its effects.
Further Reading & Resources
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Baltimore native, has written extensively on housing discrimination and racial injustice.
The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein includes detailed discussion of Baltimore’s role.
“Baltimore: A History of Race and Real Estate” – online archives and maps from Johns Hopkins University and Baltimore Heritage.
511 Weathers St.
A Quonset hut with a brick facade.
"Originally constructed in the late 1940s by two white men from Shelby, the Washington Theater quickly cemented itself as a staple of the community in east Shelby. Ownership transitioned to the Dillingham family, the Washington Theater was the only theater in Cleveland County to allow all seating to African Americans during segregation. This entertainment center regularly put on shows featuring musicians and singers, often regionally or nationally known.
"In the late 1940s it had become apparent that African Americans in Shelby lived a life that was more or less isolated from that of the white community. Segregation had an effect on every aspect of African American life at the time. This was somewhat most apparent when it came to recreation. In 1949 Holly Oak Park was built as a recreation space for the African American community of Shelby. Around this same time the Washington Theater was constructed which marked the first and only theater dedicated to the African American community. The other theaters in Shelby were segregated to where African Americans were confined to balcony seating which wasn't the case in the Washington Theater. The theater would go on to serve the community until the late 1960s when integration had begun in Shelby."
Dressel, Zachary. "The Washington Theater." Clio: Your Guide to History. January 12, 2021. Accessed January 2, 2024. theclio.com/entry/124716
Latomia of paradise today is a charming and delightful place; originally it was an immense stone quarry mostly covered and subterranean. According to the story of the ancient historians the latomie were also used as a place of segregation.
The greater curiosity for this place obtained by digging a pre-existing aqueduct, 65 meters long, from 5 to 11 meters wide and 23 meters high, is the bizarre artificial cave with surprising acoustic effects. The slightest hiss echoes inside the cave and it is repeated so often and blown out of proportion. These phenomena, the similarity to the ear canal of the human ear and the room that you see at the top right in the entrance of the cave have given rise to the legend that the cavern was dug from the tyrant Dionysius that there locked up political opponents and dissidents, so he could overhear, not see, all their speeches.
The cave was generically called “Cave that speeches“; the name Ear of Dionysius was given by the painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, who in 1608 visited the Syracuse latomia led by the learned Vincenzo Mirabella. Inside the latomia, still covered, there is the Rope Makers Cave which, for centuries, thanks to its length and the presence of water, has hosted the art of manufacturers of ropes, the “Cordari”.
E X P L O R E
From brown to green
Chameleon changes his colour
To suit the cause
To embrace the rainbow nation
He can fit in with all
After segregation
After hibernation
Chameleon walks free
Down the roads
Up the hills
In between robots
Chameleon walks free
The wind howls furiously
Gusts blows him away
Papers fly across the streets
And chameleon walks free
Returning home
To the planks of dirt
Cockroaches observe him with haunted eyes
Chameleon changes colour
Chameleon is free!
~ Lee John Siebritz ~
Then. Sports. Color Barrier Broken. Thank You. Jackie.
Now. Baseball. Lack of African Americans. Sorry. Jackie.
This is a famous poster from a strike of black sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 that the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was leading when he was assassinated in a Memphis motel.