A boy watches as crowds of segregationist demonstrators walk to Arkansas' Little Rock Central High to protest the first African-American students in a white school. 1957.
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A boy watches as crowds of segregationist demonstrators walk to Arkansas' Little Rock Central High to protest the first African-American students in a white school. 1957.
A rest stop for Greyhound bus passengers on the way from Louisville, Kentucky, to Nashville, Tennessee, with separate accommodations for colored passengers. September 1943. Photo by Esther Bubley.
Elizabeth Eckford ignores the hostile screams and stares of fellow students on her first day of school. She was one of the nine African-American students whose integration into Arkansas' Little Rock Central High School was ordered by a federal court following legal action by the NAACP. September 6, 1957.
Haven't had a chance to watch the whole thing yet, but what I've seen has been excellent.
A white woman hurriedly bars the way as African-American people were about to enter the lunch counter of this downtown department store in Memphis, Tennessee to protest the segregation policy of the establishment. 1961.
Demonstrators protest against the integration of Little Rock, Arkansas' Central High School. 1959.
During the Freedom Riders' travels throughout the South to protest segregated busses, one bus was set on fire by an angry mob. Luckily, everyone on the bus was able to escape without injury. 1961.
As a black person, I haven’t moved out of the way to make space for white people in years.
Now it’s common within shared space that white people lack spatial awareness and expect us to move out of their way. This is due to a long-standing history of segregation, Jim Crow racism and slavery in this country. Your body taking up space in public spaces is definitely an active resistance and a political statement because for years Black people wouldn’t allow to take up space in America. It was punishable by death or arrest. But we are all American regardless of our skin and we all need to share space and learn that we all can take up space in this country.
Stay Black stay blessed.