#tw segregation

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On This Day In History

October 10th, 1957: President Eisenhower apologizes to Komla Agbeli Gbedemah, the finance minister of Ghana, for being refused seating in a segregated Delaware restaurant.

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Me realizing that The Polar Express takes place in 1955 so hero girl has to deal with segregation

[fatalgames-a]

even though the days of segregation between the species had become a somewhat distant memory -- it was practically commonplace for anyone to travel between the various territories without much trouble -- there were still some neighborhoods and streets that kept the ‘old’ way. signs like ‘WEREWOLVES ONLY’ or ‘NO DEMONS ALLOWED’ still hung in the windows of various businesses and bars. it just so happened damon came across an unlikely soul outside his favorite werewolf bar. “you look a little out of place,” he remarked casually after he stepped out. “no offense.”

open.

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Travel ad from Apartheid South Africa targetting tourists from the US South (1979)

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Viola Desmond

A Canadian activist and businesswoman, Viola Desmond (1914-1965) helped start the modern Canadian civil rights movement.

Born to a Black father and White mothers in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Desmond became a beautician to address the lack of hair-care and skin-care products for Black women. She was not able to train in Halifax beautician schools, and left to train in three different cities (including one of Madam C. J. Walker's schools in New York). She returned to Halifax, where she opened a hair salon and her own beauty school for Black women, which explicitly gave admission to those who were denied entry to Whites-only training schools.

On November 8, 1946, Viola attended a movie in a segregated theatre. Unaware of this police and near-sighted, Desmond was sold a balcony ticket but sat in the floor section to see better. She was asked to move, refused, and she asked to be sold a floor ticket to be fair (they cost slightly more). Desmond was unaware of the segregation policy, as it was not standard throughout Nova Scotia.

Desmond was forcefully removed from the theatre, injuring her hip, and spent 12 hours in jail. The difference in price between the two tickets meant she had evaded a tax of a single cent (the balcony tax was 2 cents, the floor tax was 3 cents). Desmond, supported by the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Coloured People (NSAACP), filed a lawsuit.

The lawsuit was dismissed. The Justice, when doing said, said that she was in the right, but the case had been brought as regarding to tax evasion, not civil rights.

The case was highly publicized throughout Canada, and was a centerpoint around Canadian civil rights activism. Desmond was granted a posthumous pardon (this first in Canadian history) in 2010 and appeared on a Canadian banknote.

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On This Day In History

February 13th, 1920: The Negro National League is formed.

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Zephyr Wright

The White House kitchen, the workplace of some of the finest chefs in the United States, has been a place of Black excellence since the beginning. Zephyr Wright (1915-1988) was the personal chef for President Lyndon Johnson and a notably Civil Rights activist--her experiences were influential in the passing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Wright grew up in Marshall, Texas, and was inspired to join the Civil Rights Movement from a young age. In 1942, she was hired as a cook for Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson (then a representative).

Despite her culinary excellence and the respect she earned, Wright lived in a segregated world. She was kept out of hotels, restaurants, and bathrooms. She outright refused to return to Texas with the Johnsons.

As president, Johnson often asked Wright's opinion on his political actions, including the appointment of Thurgood Marshall, the first Black person to the Supreme Court. She advocated for fair wages for Black workers in the White House and bravely told stories of her life of discrimination, part of why Johnson pushed so hard on Civil Rights legislation.

As both a chef and an activist, Zephyr Wright changed the world. She witnessed the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and, afterward, received the pen used to sign it from Johnson, who said "You deserve this more than anyone else." Her cooking was world-renown by politicians and dignitaries, and she would receive fanmail for her cooking long after her retirement. The New York Times has called Wright one of "6 Black Chefs Who Changed the History of Food".

Check out, and maybe try making, some of her recipes!

1. Pedernales River Chili (here mistakenly attributed to Lady Bird)

2. Shrimp Curry a la Zephyr Wright

[pyxilate]

the biggest problem with the lesbian subreddit is that they’re always like “ugh why can’t we have a place for JUST LESBIANS where no MEN can interact and no STRAIGHT PEOPLE can interact and why can NONBINARY PEOPLE and TRANSMASCS call themselves lesbians because they’re not WOMEN” and babes that’s. that’s voluntary segregation. you are literally segregating yourself from the rest of the queer community and screaming ‘misogyny’ when other people point it out.