On this very day, 1 December ...
Dec 1, 2020 06:58:31 #
LWW
Loc: Banana Republic of America
AD 1913 - The FORD MOTOR COMPANY institutes the first moving assembly line, revolutionizing the manufacture of most everything and making modern mass production possible.
AD 1928 - NATIONAL LEAGUE President John Arnold Heydler proposes a new rule for MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL instituting a tenth man, known as the DESIGNATED HITTER, to bat in place of the pitcher. The national league voted for the new rule, but the AMERICAN LEAGUE vetoed it and that was the end of the idea for some time. Oddly enough, in 1973 the american league adopted the designated hitter while the national league did not.
AD 1953 Hugh Marston Hefner publishes the first edition of PLAYBOY MAGAZINE. Norma Jeane Mortenson, AKA Marilyn Monroe, was the very first centerfold.
And, as a bonus historical factoid from this very day in history:
AD 1955 - Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was arrested around 6:00 PM in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to surrender her seat on a city bus.
Bus ridership had been running at roughly a 75% black and 25% white ratio for years and the bus line had designated the first four rows as white only, and city regulations required segregated seating.
The bustling had a policy that if more whites boarded than the first four rows would hold, the whites only section would be expanded and blacks would have to move back or stand.
At the stop in front of the EMPIRE THEATER several whites boarded, and bus driver James Blake moved the 'COLORED SECTION' sign back one row and demanded that Parks and three others move towards the back of the bus.
Three men in her row moved, and Rosa moved laterally to the window seat refusing to move towards the back of the bus.
Parks was arrested and charged with a violation of CHAPER SIX SECTION ELEVEN of the segregation law of the Montgomery City code.
The following Sunday 4 December, plans to boycott the Montgomery busses were distributed in black churches.
On 5 December Parks was found guilty and fined $10.00 plus $4.00 court costs. That day the local 'WOMEN'S POLITICAL COUNCIL' distributed 35,000 leaflets saying:
"We are ... asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial ... You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday."
Forty thousand blacks walked or took cabs that day. Black cab companies reduced fares to the same $0.10 that the Montgomery buses charged.
The boycott lasted for 381 days, nearly breaking the bus company as dozens of city buses sat parked for months.
To maintain the boycott the 'MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION' was formed. A relatively unknown young minister from the 'DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH' named Martin Luther King Junior was elected president.
On 5 June, 1956 the 'UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA' ruled 2-1 that segregated busing laws were unconstitutional as it deprived citizens of equal protection under the law as demanded by the fourteenth amendment.
The city of Montgomery and the state of Alabama appealed to the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES which summarily agreed with the lower court on 13 November, 1956. On 17 December the court denied the state of Alabama's appeal for rehearing.
One brief act of courage changed a nation.
The moral of the story is if presented with the option of taking a stand alone on principle, or standing with the crowd ... choose principle.
AD 1928 - NATIONAL LEAGUE President John Arnold Heydler proposes a new rule for MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL instituting a tenth man, known as the DESIGNATED HITTER, to bat in place of the pitcher. The national league voted for the new rule, but the AMERICAN LEAGUE vetoed it and that was the end of the idea for some time. Oddly enough, in 1973 the american league adopted the designated hitter while the national league did not.
AD 1953 Hugh Marston Hefner publishes the first edition of PLAYBOY MAGAZINE. Norma Jeane Mortenson, AKA Marilyn Monroe, was the very first centerfold.
And, as a bonus historical factoid from this very day in history:
AD 1955 - Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was arrested around 6:00 PM in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to surrender her seat on a city bus.
Bus ridership had been running at roughly a 75% black and 25% white ratio for years and the bus line had designated the first four rows as white only, and city regulations required segregated seating.
The bustling had a policy that if more whites boarded than the first four rows would hold, the whites only section would be expanded and blacks would have to move back or stand.
At the stop in front of the EMPIRE THEATER several whites boarded, and bus driver James Blake moved the 'COLORED SECTION' sign back one row and demanded that Parks and three others move towards the back of the bus.
Three men in her row moved, and Rosa moved laterally to the window seat refusing to move towards the back of the bus.
Parks was arrested and charged with a violation of CHAPER SIX SECTION ELEVEN of the segregation law of the Montgomery City code.
The following Sunday 4 December, plans to boycott the Montgomery busses were distributed in black churches.
On 5 December Parks was found guilty and fined $10.00 plus $4.00 court costs. That day the local 'WOMEN'S POLITICAL COUNCIL' distributed 35,000 leaflets saying:
"We are ... asking every Negro to stay off the buses Monday in protest of the arrest and trial ... You can afford to stay out of school for one day. If you work, take a cab, or walk. But please, children and grown-ups, don't ride the bus at all on Monday. Please stay off the buses Monday."
Forty thousand blacks walked or took cabs that day. Black cab companies reduced fares to the same $0.10 that the Montgomery buses charged.
The boycott lasted for 381 days, nearly breaking the bus company as dozens of city buses sat parked for months.
To maintain the boycott the 'MONTGOMERY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION' was formed. A relatively unknown young minister from the 'DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH' named Martin Luther King Junior was elected president.
On 5 June, 1956 the 'UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA' ruled 2-1 that segregated busing laws were unconstitutional as it deprived citizens of equal protection under the law as demanded by the fourteenth amendment.
The city of Montgomery and the state of Alabama appealed to the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES which summarily agreed with the lower court on 13 November, 1956. On 17 December the court denied the state of Alabama's appeal for rehearing.
One brief act of courage changed a nation.
The moral of the story is if presented with the option of taking a stand alone on principle, or standing with the crowd ... choose principle.
Dec 1, 2020 07:17:15 #
Good for Rosa! Those were the days I grew up in. I still remember taking a trip to Florida from NY in 1962. In the south, on a number of gas station restrooms were signs which read, "No coloreds allowed". I wondered where they were supposed to go. Thanks for the post!
Dec 1, 2020 07:53:12 #
ELNikkor wrote:
Good for Rosa! Those were the days I grew up in. I still remember taking a trip to Florida from NY in 1962. In the south, on a number of gas station restrooms were signs which read, "No coloreds allowed". I wondered where they were supposed to go. Thanks for the post!
A dark chapter for sure. I was in Fort Benning Ga in 1958 and there were still those who wanted segregation. We just thought it strange coming from Chicago which was segregated. I went to school with blacks and Hispanics so we thought nothing of integration.
But, more to the point, there was a book for travelers, The Green Book, I think that gave blacks directions on where to stop for services throughout the south.
Dec 1, 2020 08:40:31 #
Didn't know Playboy was started the year I was born, but looking back it makes sense now.
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Dec 2, 2020 12:13:52 #
And Rosa, some time later, said something like "all I wanted to do was go home".
Not to protest.
Not to become a symbol.
Just to be treated like a person.
And one person. can. change. the. world!
Not to protest.
Not to become a symbol.
Just to be treated like a person.
And one person. can. change. the. world!
Dec 2, 2020 17:02:28 #
tvhasben
Loc: Chattanooga, Tennessee
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939)[1] is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.[2]
For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort. She was an unmarried teenager at the time, and was reportedly impregnated by a married man.[3][4] Colvin has said, "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all."[5][6] It is widely accepted that Colvin was not accredited by the civil rights campaigners at the time due to her pregnancy shortly after the incident, with even Rosa Parks saying "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance."[3]
Claudette Colvin (born September 5, 1939)[1] is a retired American nurse aide who was a pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. This occurred nine months before the more widely known incident in which Rosa Parks, secretary of the local chapter of the NAACP, helped spark the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott.[2]
For many years, Montgomery's black leaders did not publicize Colvin's pioneering effort. She was an unmarried teenager at the time, and was reportedly impregnated by a married man.[3][4] Colvin has said, "Young people think Rosa Parks just sat down on a bus and ended segregation, but that wasn't the case at all."[5][6] It is widely accepted that Colvin was not accredited by the civil rights campaigners at the time due to her pregnancy shortly after the incident, with even Rosa Parks saying "If the white press got ahold of that information, they would have [had] a field day. They'd call her a bad girl, and her case wouldn't have a chance."[3]
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