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A far-flung "frontier outpost" of the Burlington, Abilene, Texas is not what most people think of when they consider the roads moniker of "Everywhere West." Like the other Fort Worth and Denver branch line depots at Pampa, Dimmitt, Silverton, and Lubbock, the Abilene depot was at the end of the line. No train order board presided here since nothing passed through. This depot, along with the ones at Lubbock and Pampa, was a "back-in" terminal where the passenger train would do exactly that. Unique architecturally, so far as I know on "The Q," the details and the colors are consistent with the Denver's design ethic. Hiding under the vines on the right, is the baggage room and a decorative arch with a big ball finial - Google can show you better pics of this. You can also see the mark of social history with "separate but equal" waiting rooms on either side of the central bay window-equipped office, bearing silent witness to the era of racial segregation in the Jim Crow South. It's interesting to consider that BN crews called on Abilene into the early 90's, up until the Wichita Valley line was abandoned between there and Wichita Falls. Southern Switching is the keeper of the flame locally these days, serving a handful of customers and storing cars on what's left of the FW&D on the east side of town.
Segregated into the 1960s, the Sloss Furnaces labor force was primarily African American. This was the Black bath house.
this is the other little image i picked out from the group of photos that Glenn picked while i was sitting in his booth @ the Raleigh Flea Market. i'm amazed that Glenn let me have this little photo, as it is a classic. the damage (there are lots of scratches) almost works to enhance the impact of the scene, rather than detract from it. definitely, you must view this one large.
Please sign Andrew_S's petition to help bring Bunny Boo back! It's been 4-5 years since I last saw her in stores here in Aus. Not to mention all the other countries that have missed out on her. She has even been cancelled before production a couple of times this year.
There are currently 33 votes needed for the petition to move forward, so please take a moment to sign it if you haven't.
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Although the African Burial Ground National Monument was opened to the public in 2010, this is a first visit to the site. The discovery of the remains of hundreds of Africans in an excavation site in preparation to build a skyscraper in Manhattan in 1991 was a watershed moment, which opened the doors to the rediscovery of the early history of New York City (then New Amsterdam.)
It was revealed that Africans (the majority of whom had been enslaved), who had worked to build the settlement of New Amsterdam in the 17th and 18th centuries, were not allowed to bury their dead in the grounds where the European immigrants buried their own dead. Thus one of the first instances of segregation in what was to become the United States of America had some early origins. Closed as a burial site nineteen years following the U.S. declared its independence from England, the site fell into disuse, and became part of the growing settlement which would eventually become the metropolis of New York City.
It wouldn’t be rediscovered almost 200 years later, but was developed as a national monument, following an extremely strong advocacy from the local and national African American community.
Staircase inside the abandoned Saenger Theater, in downtown Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The theater was built in 1924, but closed in the 1970s. The architecture of the Saenger is a sad indicator of the era in which it was built. This side staircase bypasses the lobby and heads to the top of the balcony, which was used by African Americans who were forced to sit there during the days of segregation.
A.E.P.Albert, DD, MD - One of the plaintiffs in Plessy v Ferguson, the US Supreme Court case lost that established 'separate but equal' essentially legalizing racial segregation in the U.S. until overturned in Brown v Board of Education in 1954.
An ordained minister in the Methodist Church, he also received Doctor of Medicine from Flint Goodridge Hospital in New Orleans. He was also later the President of the Board of Trustees of New Orleans University, now Dillard University.
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Parts of the Birwood Wall, a 6 foot tall half mile long wall built to separate a new white neighborhood from an existing black neighborhood in 1940 near 8 Mile Road in Detroit. It was built in order to satisfy Federal Housing Administration Loan Requirements for segregated neighborhoods.
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Don't expect much comfort while in segregation. You'll be locked in a spartan single cell for 24/7 except for shower and some time in the yard. Whenever leaving your cell, you'll be put in full restraints.
U.S. Supreme Court in its Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) case infamously ruled that the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not regulate against private enterprises segregating their services to citizens on the basis of skin color. In a train case, black patrons had separate parts of cars that they had to be in but those cars were considered "equal", not secondary customers and citizens.
TITLE: door circa 1880s
MATERIAL: wood, metal, paint
PLACE: Arkansas doctor's office
EXHIBITION: Tubman Museum, Macon, Georgia
That's what comes when you break the rules. You'll be heading to administrative segregation for a while.
Gordon Parks was born into poverty and segregation in Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1912. An itinerant laborer, he worked as a brothel pianist and railcar porter, among other jobs, before buying a camera at a pawnshop, training himself, and becoming a photographer. In addition to his storied tenures photographing for the Farm Security Administration (1941–45) and Life magazine (1948–72), Parks evolved into a modern-day Renaissance man, finding success as a film director, writer and composer. The first African-American director to helm a major motion picture, he helped launch the blaxploitation genre with his film Shaft (1971). He wrote numerous memoirs, novels and books of poetry, and received many awards, including the National Medal of Arts and more than 50 honorary degrees. Parks died in 2006.
Fort Lauderdale is a city in the U.S. state of Florida, 25 miles (40 km) north of Miami. It is the county seat of Broward County. As of the 2019 census, the city has an estimated population of 182,437. Fort Lauderdale is a principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which was home to an estimated 6,198,782 people in 2018.
The city is a popular tourist destination, with an average year-round temperature of 75.5 °F (24.2 °C) and 3,000 hours of sunshine per year. Greater Fort Lauderdale which takes in all of Broward County hosted 12 million visitors in 2012, including 2.8 million international visitors. The city and county in 2012 collected $43.9 million from the 5% hotel tax it charges, after hotels in the area recorded an occupancy rate for the year of 72.7 percent and an average daily rate of $114.48. The district has 561 hotels and motels comprising nearly 35,000 rooms. Forty six cruise ships sailed from Port Everglades in 2012. Greater Fort Lauderdale has over 4,000 restaurants, 63 golf courses, 12 shopping malls, 16 museums, 132 nightclubs, 278 parkland campsites, and 100 marinas housing 45,000 resident yachts.
Fort Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major William Lauderdale (1782–1838), younger brother of Lieutenant Colonel James Lauderdale. William Lauderdale was the commander of the detachment of soldiers who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict. Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend on the New River between the Colee Hammock and Rio Vista neighborhoods, and the third near the site of the Bahia Mar Marina.
The area in which the city of Fort Lauderdale would later be founded was inhabited for more than two thousand years by the Tequesta Indians. Contact with Spanish explorers in the 16th century proved disastrous for the Tequesta, as the Europeans unwittingly brought with them diseases, such as smallpox, to which the native populations possessed no resistance. For the Tequesta, disease, coupled with continuing conflict with their Calusa neighbors, contributed greatly to their decline over the next two centuries. By 1763, there were only a few Tequesta left in Florida, and most of them were evacuated to Cuba when the Spanish ceded Florida to the British in 1763, under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763), which ended the Seven Years' War. Although control of the area changed between Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the Confederate States of America, it remained largely undeveloped until the 20th century.
The Fort Lauderdale area was known as the "New River Settlement" before the 20th century. In the 1830s there were approximately 70 settlers living along the New River. William Cooley, the local Justice of the Peace, was a farmer and wrecker, who traded with the Seminole Indians. On January 6, 1836, while Cooley was leading an attempt to salvage a wrecked ship, a band of Seminoles attacked his farm, killing his wife and children, and the children's tutor. The other farms in the settlement were not attacked, but all the white residents in the area abandoned the settlement, fleeing first to the Cape Florida Lighthouse on Key Biscayne, and then to Key West.
The first United States stockade named Fort Lauderdale was built in 1838, and subsequently was a site of fighting during the Second Seminole War. The fort was abandoned in 1842, after the end of the war, and the area remained virtually unpopulated until the 1890s. It was not until Frank Stranahan arrived in the area in 1893 to operate a ferry across the New River, and the Florida East Coast Railroad's completion of a route through the area in 1896, that any organized development began. The city was incorporated in 1911, and in 1915 was designated the county seat of newly formed Broward County.
Fort Lauderdale's first major development began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic dislocation. In July 1935, an African-American man named Rubin Stacy was accused of robbing a white woman at knife point. He was arrested and being transported to a Miami jail when police were run off the road by a mob. A group of 100 white men proceeded to hang Stacy from a tree near the scene of his alleged robbery. His body was riddled with some twenty bullets. The murder was subsequently used by the press in Nazi Germany to discredit US critiques of its own persecution of Jews, Communists, and Catholics.
When World War II began, Fort Lauderdale became a major US base, with a Naval Air Station to train pilots, radar operators, and fire control, operators. A Coast Guard base at Port Everglades was also established.
On July 4, 1961, African Americans started a series of protests, wade-ins, at beaches that were off-limits to them, to protest "the failure of the county to build a road to the Negro beach". On July 11, 1962, a verdict by Ted Cabot went against the city's policy of racial segregation of public beaches.
Today, Fort Lauderdale is a major yachting center, one of the nation's largest tourist destinations, and the center of a metropolitan division with 1.8 million people.
Credit for the data above is given to the following website:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Lauderdale,_Florida
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As the first weekend of the new year is upon us, the #3PlyMafia is about to embark on our first road trip of the year!
It was only 2 months ago when myself, Carlo Paolozza & Freaktography did our last major road trip where we slept in abandoned buildings. This weekend we plan on doing just that, yet again! We head out tonight for a ridiculously long drive & spend the weekend shooting this incredible location.
From our last trip, here is the administrative segregation unit or solitary confinement as it's commonly known. This unit was in the basement level of the prison & was used to house violent & disruptive inmates. Inmates are typically locked down in this unit for 23 hours a day & let out only to shower & get exercise. Meals & any other services such as counselling was provided at the cell door to limit the inmates movements throughout the facility. Recently an Ontario judge ruled that spending anymore than 5 days in Ad Seg was unconstitutional however prison officials stand by it as the best way to deal with problematic inmates.
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One day in 1963
Today in 1963 A father of four had a dream
A dream that followed from the horrors of war
Where his race had fought and died for the emancipation of Europe to let freedom ring
They had seen the extermination of the Jews, Negros and homosexuals they believed in a better world
Yet returning to find segregation still rife
Southern politicians still believing them slaves and a sub class
He told them to rise from the valleys of segregation and they came and peacefully protested
He said the government had failed to cash a promissory cheque, he was right. Lincoln's dream was not the freedom promised.
They marched silently past the National Guard, with dignity and were hosed by the fire department
Yet the fire within their hearts burned stronger
Change came after his death and slowly
Fifty years on Dr King is gone yet his dream is as vivid today as it was then
His dream of judging by character not by colour has been replaced by those who now judge by religion.
Once again the injustice, interposition and Nullification
Once again the world is at a crossroads
Creeds now walk alone others rejoice in killing
The concept of all created equal is no longer a dream for all
In places it is reality, in other lands their only dream
As we now sit on the edge of reason poised to once again bomb another creed we are once again looking for a solution
We have a Negro US president, Female heads of state, multi cultural countries in peace and yet we kill over gods creed and belief
I would remind them of his words...
As we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall march ahead. We cannot turn back. There are those who are asking the devotes of civil rights "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities.
Now read those words Obama, Cameron, Putin and your peers. March ahead for men women and children have no highway home or lodging in Syria. They have little cover and no food and little water. I don't claim the solution is easy but Is military action by bombs from above your best option?
The coming days will tell.
It seems the Kings, Kennedy's and those who believed peace and harmony was an option are now in the minority in power.
To close with his words.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every hamlet, every state every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of gods children, black men white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual,
" Free at last! Free at last. GOD ALMIGHTY, we are free at last.
Now add Muslim, Arab, Sunni and any other measure of colour and creed.
May you and whoever your god, country or colour may be. Live in freedom and respect others.
Kings words are as valid today as ever. I use them with respect and claim no ownership.
May we learn.
A fjord is formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley by ice segregation and abrasion of the surrounding bedrock.[2] Glacial melting is accompanied by the rebounding of the Earth's crust as the ice load and eroded sediment is removed (also called isostasy or glacial rebound). In some cases this rebound is faster than sea level rise. Most fjords are deeper than the adjacent sea.
Taken from the NY Times.
I entitled this photo "The Country That Some Want Back" in 2012 when I posted the photo initially.
Heto na pala ang nabili ng mag-asawang Manuel Joaquin at Grace Joaquin na Mannrose. Kaya pala iba ang livery sa mga normal Mannrose na ube-colored livery dahil magkaiba ang may-ari.
Company/Owner: Mannrose Liner, Inc/MSJ Tours
Fleet/Bus Number: 3300401
Classification: Air-conditioned City Bus
Coachbuilder: Santarosa Motor Works, Inc./Columbian Motors Corporation
Body Model: UD Trucks/Santarosa EXFOH PKB212
Engine Model: UD FE6-TA (FE6-D)
Chassis Model: UD PKB212N
Transmission: 6-speed Manual Transmission
Suspension: Leaf Spring Suspension
Seating Configuration: 3×2
Seating Capacity: 58
Franchise route: Baclaran–SM Fairview via Lagro, Ayala
Route: Baclaran, Parañaque City [BCL, PQ]–Palmera, San Jose del Monte City, Bulacan via N61 (Roxas Boulevard: from NAIA Road to EDSA) / N120 (Roxas Boulevard: from EDSA to Buendia Avenue) / N190 (Buendia Avenue/Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue) / Ayala Avenue (Makati City) / N1 (EDSA) / N174 (East Avenue) / N170 [Commonwealth Avenue (Quezon City)] / N127 (Quirino Highway)
Areas passing (underlines are designated stops for this bus scheme - EDSA area only: Buendia–Kamuning): Bayview International Towers\City of Dreams\Airport Road\Baclaran Market/Baclaran Church\Japanese Embassy\Cuneta Astrodome/HK Sun Plaza/Department of Foreign Affairs\World Trade Center\F.B. Harrison Street\BIR Pasay City\LRT Gil Puyat Station/Taft Avenue\Osmeña Highway/PNR Buendia Station\Chino Roces Avenue (Pasong Tamo)\Makati Central Post Office\RCBC Plaza Yuchengco Tower\RCBC Plaza\V.A. Rufino\PBCOM Tower\Ayala Triangle\Makati Ave./The Peninsula Manila Hotel\Glorietta\Buendia Avenue\Estrella\Guadalupe\Boni/Pioneer\Reliance\Shaw Boulevard\SM Megamall\Ortigas Avenue\Robinsons Galleria\Boni Serrano\Main Avenue\Araneta Center Cubao\Baliwag Transit/Five Star\Ermin Garcia Avenue\LTFRB Central Office/LTO Central Office\NIA Road\V. Luna Avenue/Land Registration Authority East Ave\Philippine Statistics Authority\SSS East Ave/BSP East Ave\BIR Road\East Avenue Medical Center\Philippine Heart Center\Matalino Street/Nat'l Kidney Transplant Institute\Quezon Memorial Circle/Quezon City Hall Gate 10\Nat'l Housing Authority Main Office/Maharlika Street\Philcoa\UP Ayala TechnoHub\Central Avenue\INC Templo Central\Tandang Sora Avenue\Luzon Avenue\Diliman Doctors Hospital\Don Antonio\Ever Gotesco\Saint Peter Parish\Sandiganbayan\Commission on Audit\Commonwealth Market\Manggahan\INC Capitol\Litex\Don Fabian\Doña Carmen Avenue\Winston Street\Pearl Drive\Fairview Center Mall/NCBA Fairview\Our Lady of Fatima Regalado\AMA Fairview/Bristol Street\Mindanao-Jollibee\Brittany Square/Belfast\Commonwealth Hospital and Medical Center\SM City Fairview\Trees Residences\Hilltop Mansion Subdivision/Our Lady of Fatima Hilltop\Mater Carmeli School\Sacred Heart Novitiate\Quezon City–Caloocan Boundary\Sacred Heart Village/Dela Costa Homes 2\Midway Park Subdivision\Amparo Subdivision Gate 2\Guadanoville Subdivision\Mountain Heights Subdivision\Pangarap Village\Bankers Village 2/North Caloocan Doctors Hospital\Cefels Park 3 Subdivision\Malaria Road\Funnside Ningnangan Caloocan\Ascoville Road\Sampaguita Street\Altaraza Town Center/Pleasant Hills Subdivision\Diamond Crest Village\Savano Park\Pecsonville Subdivision/SM Tungko (SM San Jose del Monte)\Skyline Hospital\Gumaok East\Francisco Homes Subdivision\Starmall San Jose del Monte
Type of Operation: City Operation Public Utility Bus (Bus B Segregation | Regular Class)
Area of Operations: National Capital Region (NCR)/Central Luzon (Region III)
Shot Location: N190 (Gil Puyat Avenue), Buendia, Makati City
Date Taken: May 13, 2018 (14:46H)
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Photograph published on October 5th, 2016 in Allegra Laboratory.net to illustrate the book review "The Borderlands of Race: Mexican Segregation in a South Texas Town". "The Borderlands of Race" is an anthropology book written by Jennifer Najera.
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Local call number: TD02538
Title: CORE members during sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee
Date: October 25, 1962
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 35 mm.
Series Title: Tallahassee Democrat Collection
Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida
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Artist: Hiero Veiga
From the Florida Times Union:
"...painted on the back of the Voo-Swar Restaurant & Lounge ....Wednesday, April 28, 2021. "Mr. E" as he was known in the neighborhood built and ran the Voo-Swar in 1963 during segregation when Black sailors from nearby Naval Station Mayport were not warmly welcomed at other local bars. Davis died in 2019."
B Wing housed vulnerable prisoners and the segregation unit. The oppressive atmosphere in here is palpable.
Note the not necessarily communal complexity of the names. Many come from commercial caste origins rather than from religion.
Girard College, Philadelphia is a college prep boarding school. Girard College was established through the will of wealthy Stephen Girard for free education for fatherless white boys. This segregation only ended in 1968 through legal action. Girls were not admitted until 1984.
This photograph showcases a poignant exhibit from the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, a somber relic of the Freedom Rides. The charred remains of this Greyhound bus serve as a visceral reminder of the harrowing challenges faced by civil rights activists in the 1960s. The image captures the stark reality of the violence they encountered, and the scorched metal frames the resilience and determination that fueled their journey toward equality. It's a powerful homage to those who dared to confront systemic segregation and injustice at great personal risk. This artifact, preserved in the museum, continues to educate and inspire future generations about the sacrifices made in the struggle for civil rights.
The LLTs were on the feeder when a bluetit arrived. They flew away, but came straight back, only to stay on their own side of the feeder!
Local call number: MOZ00009
Title: Visitors on glass bottom boat at Paradise Park, Silver Springs
Date: ca. 1955
Physical descrip: 1 photonegative - b&w - 60 mm.
Series Title: Bruce Mozert Collection
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A Pullman railcar built in 1922 used during the Jim Crow segregation era operated by the Southern Railway Company
"The house at 1500 Vermont Avenue NW in the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington, D.C., was built in 1879 for Seth Ledyard Phelps. It later served as the Cadillac Hotel for African-Americans during segregation. The building is a contributing property to the Logan Circle Historic District and Greater Fourteenth Street Historic District.
Logan Circle is a historic roundabout park and neighborhood of Washington, D.C., located in Northwest. The majority of Logan Circle is primarily residential, except for the highly-commercialized 14th Street corridor that passes through the western part of the neighborhood. In the 21st century, Logan Circle has been the focus of urban redevelopment and become one of Washington's most expensive neighborhoods. Today, Logan Circle is home to one of the D.C.'s most prominent gay neighborhoods.
Logan Circle includes two historic districts, as well as numerous sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places or as D.C. Historic Landmarks. Logan Circle's origins date to the 1870's, when the area was developed as a residential neighborhood to serve Washington's growing bourgeoisie. In 1901, President William McKinley inaugurated the General Logan equestrian statue at the center of the circle's park. In 1930, the U.S. Congress officially named the circle in honor of Union General John A. Logan.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia, also known as just Washington or simply D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. It is located on the east bank of the Potomac River, which forms its southwestern and southern border with the U.S. state of Virginia, and it shares a land border with the U.S. state of Maryland on its other sides. The city was named for George Washington, a Founding Father and the first president of the United States, and the federal district is named after Columbia, the female personification of the nation. As the seat of the U.S. federal government and several international organizations, the city is an important world political capital. It is one of the most visited cities in the U.S. with over 20 million annual visitors as of 2016.
The U.S. Constitution provides for a federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of Congress; the district is not a part of any U.S. state (nor is it one itself). The signing of the Residence Act on July 16, 1790, approved the creation of the capital district located along the Potomac River near the country's East Coast. The City of Washington was founded in 1791, and Congress held its first session there in 1800. In 1801, the territory, formerly part of Maryland and Virginia (including the settlements of Georgetown and Alexandria), officially became recognized as the federal district. In 1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia, including the city of Alexandria; in 1871, it created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the district. There have been efforts to make the city into a state since the 1880s, a movement that has gained momentum in recent years, and a statehood bill passed the House of Representatives in 2021.
The city is divided into quadrants centered on the Capitol, and there are as many as 131 neighborhoods. According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 689,545, which makes it the 23rd most populous city in the U.S. as of 2020, the third most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and gives it a population larger than that of two U.S. states: Wyoming and Vermont. Commuters from the surrounding Maryland and Virginia suburbs raise the city's daytime population to more than one million during the workweek. Washington's metropolitan area, the country's sixth largest (including parts of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia), had a 2020 estimated population of 6.3 million residents; and over 54 million people live within 250 mi (400 km) of the District.
The three branches of the U.S. federal government are centered in the district: Congress (legislative), the president (executive), and the Supreme Court (judicial). Washington is home to many national monuments and museums, primarily situated on or around the National Mall. The city hosts 177 foreign embassies as well as the headquarters of many international organizations, trade unions, non-profits, lobbying groups, and professional associations, including the World Bank Group, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization of American States, AARP, the National Geographic Society, the American Red Cross, and others.
A locally elected mayor and a 13-member council have governed the district since 1973. Congress maintains supreme authority over the city and may overturn local laws. The District of Columbia does not have representation in Congress, although D.C. residents elect a single at-large congressional delegate to the House of Representatives who has no vote. District voters choose three presidential electors in accordance with the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1961." - info from Wikipedia.
The fall of 2022 I did my 3rd major cycling tour. I began my adventure in Montreal, Canada and finished in Savannah, GA. This tour took me through the oldest parts of Quebec and the 13 original US states. During this adventure I cycled 7,126 km over the course of 2.5 months and took more than 68,000 photos. As with my previous tours, a major focus was to photograph historic architecture.
Now on Instagram.
Ich kam an einem Garten vorbei. Da entdeckte ich über einem Zaun verblühende Pflanzen. Fast zeitgleich kam mir der Gedanke, dass das ein Symbol für „Vergänglichkeit“ ist. Dieses Symbol wurde in seiner Aussagekraft sogar noch verstärkt, weil sich hinter dieser verblühenden Blüte ein Baum befand, dessen Äste keinerlei Blüten trugen, da er sie im Herbst/Winter alle verloren hat. Ein Motiv war geboren. Möge es uns daran erinnern, dass in dieser Welt nichts für ewig oder selbstverständlich ist. In dieser Welt ist alles vergänglich.
Gwendolyn Greene (later Britt) sits patiently at the People’s Drug counter on the 4700 block of Lee Highway in Arlington, Virginia during a sit-in protest June 9, 1960.
The workers behind the counter served white customers then walked out when demonstrators sat down, only returning when the management closed the counter (note sign). There were three sit-ins conducted that day including at People’s Drug Store and another Drug Fair.
The protestors were part of the Non-Violent Action Group (NAG), an integrated group mainly composed of students that was led by Howard University divinity student Laurence Henry.
The sit-in demonstrations at People’s Drug Store, Drug Fair, Landsburgh’s Woolworths and the Howard Johnson’s in Arlington were successful within a matter of weeks and most restaurants and lunch counters in the city desegregated in 1960.
The group moved on to Maryland the same year where they staged ultimately successful demonstrations to desegregate Glen Echo Amusement Park, the Hi-Boy restaurant in Rockville and the Hiser Theater in Bethesda.
Greene was part of a group with four others arrested on the carousel at Glen Echo in a case that ultimately went to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled in the protestors favor and overturned the arrests because the park had used deputy sheriffs to enforce it’s Jim Crow policy. Greene went on to become a state senator in Maryland (Gwendolyn Britt).
For a short article on one of the protestors, Dion Diamond, see washingtonspark.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/crazy-dion-diamo...
For additional photos of the campaign to desegregate restaurants in Arlington, Virginia, see flic.kr/s/aHsjDFaXGH
Photo by Paul Schmick. Courtesy of the D.C. Public Library Washington Star Collection © Washington Post.
This one room school house was once used to educate African American school children in rural Alabama during segregation.
AD-SEG stands for "Administrative Segregation". That means in fact solitary confinement. It's both for inmates with disciplinary issues as well as for those who are in protective custody for their own safety.
Rigid handcuffs on your wrists, arms stacked in front, fixed with a waist belt, and four heavily armed guards to escort you: one in front, two on your sides, each of them holding one of your arms, and one walking behind you. That's very exciting.
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