In early February, 1965, I was jailed for 10 days in Selma, Alabama after being arrested in a peaceful march in support of voting rights for black citizens. Along with several dozen others, I slept on a concrete floor in a near-freezing prison camp, and subsisted on two daily servings of blackeye peas or beans … Continue reading When Good Trouble Got Serious: John Lewis- at the Pettus Bridge, 1965 — And TODAY
I hate to admit it, but my authorial ego was bruised by wading through the list of 381 books pulled from the Nimitz Library of the U. S. Naval Academy last week. It tallied the volumes expelled by order of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, for committing the grave sins of advocating and documenting aspects of … Continue reading The Naval Academy Library’s Magical Minstrel Show for Massa Hegseth
Below is a black & white news photo from late February, 1965. It turned up a few years back (hat tip to the sharp-eyed Lewis Lewis): it was taken on the steps of Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama when John Lewis (center-left, with a tie) announced the plan to march from Selma … Continue reading “Bloody Sunday” in Selma plus 60: Victory Undone, Battle Renewed
The Guardian — Interview ‘It’s good to think strategically’: Thomas E. Ricks on civil rights and January 6 Martin Pengelly in Washington — Published 8 October 2022 In his book, the journalist- historian considers the work of Martin Luther King and others through the lens of military thought. “There is a direct connection from Freedom … Continue reading More Un-Banned Black History: Tom Ricks on The Civil Rights Movement as a “Good War”
