Posted in election, history, Uncategorized, voting rights on September 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Please note the shout out to college students. Students, it is not true that if you register to vote in your college towns, you will lose your ability to be claimed as dependents under your parents’ tax return. If you have coverage under your parents’ car and health insurance, registering to vote in your college town will not jeopardize that coverage.
Now, if you have not registered, time is running out. You get your… well, you know.
Posted in gone too soon, history, memory, racial violence, Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
45 years ago yesterday…..
Between 1947 and 1965, over fifty bombings occurred in Birmingham, resulting in the city becoming known as “Bombingham”; Perhaps the most famous of these blasts was the one that took the lives of four innocent black youth as they prepared their Sunday School lessons on a Sunday Morning at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
The bombing came as a result of heightened tensions in the city after a federal court ordered its schools to be integrated. Governor George Wallace chose to defy this order and urged his followers to do the same. Such defiance only encouraged Birmingham’s bombers to swing into action. Indeed, a local black attorney’s house was bombed for the second time in two weeks. In the end, federal authorities won this minor skirmish and the schools were desegregated. Segregationists in Birmingham were not happy.
On a quiet Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, four little black girls prepared their Sunday School lessons in the basement of the church. In the same basement sat a bomb placed by segregationists, designed to kill and maim in protest of the forced integration of Birmingham’s public schools. Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, and Addie Mae Collins were killed in the explosion. Angry blacks rioted and the civil authorities responded with great violence. During the rest of the day, other black youths were murdered by police and civilians alike, compounding the desperation.
From Bombing Of The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church
h/t ABB for reminding us.
Posted in election, Uncategorized on September 16, 2008 |
Yes, it’s petty and snarky, and no, it really doesn’t have anything to do with the issues (since she paid for it with her own money) and I promise not to post anything like this again, but this I could not resist.
Blame it on election fatigue. Even so, come quickly, November 4th!
By Professor What If Sept. 2008
