Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.
A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.
Among Johnson’s notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.
An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, “With my non-violent .38 special.”
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Is it just me or has American media literacy gotten noticeably worse lately? I find that talking to them about media topics is more headache inducing than it used to be. Even stuff in meme format seems to fly over their heads and you have to painstakingly explain the meanings of basic themes or narratives to them.
I find similar problems with other countries but Americans have been the most consistent with it and the most smug about their wrong assertions.
I’ve found the whole idea of theme is lost on most folks I talk to. Everything is surface level. There cannot be underlying meaning to anything, if there is it’s deceptive propaganda. I’ve heard the generalization lately that Americans have a certain attitude of anxiety or desperation.
as they should, given their living conditions
Yes, tho it was always piss poor.