Black man killed for trying to use whites-only bathroom in Alabama in 1966

[struggle4progress]

BY DAVID J. KRAJICEK
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, May 21, 2016, 9:00 PM

... Marvin Segrest, a 67-year-old white man, stood between Younge and a toilet ... The student and the pump jockey crossed swords when Younge tried to use the station’s whites-only bathroom an hour before midnight on Jan. 3, 1966 ... Segrest reached for his gun ... Segrest was arrested and indicted for second-degree murder only after Tuskegee students demonstrated on the town square, whose centerpiece is a Confederate memorial ...

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-man-killed-bathroom-alabama-1966-article-1.2645287

[Skittles]

1. that was in my lifetime

truly awful

[awoke_in_2003]

5. Just 2 years before I was born...

in 76, my family moved from Ohio to Alabama. Talk about a huge culture shock.

[silvershadow]

2. If humans had a real good concept of time, this would mean so much more. This was

in my lifetime, and I'm not *that old yet. Yes, we've all come a long way from those days. But we have so much further to go. The struggle continues, for all of us, white, black, and every other race, creed, religion, and every other...

[heaven05]

3. if Trump wins

it's only a matter of time before people will regress to these "good old days".

[marble falls]

4. The last line says it all:

“What we learn from Jim Crow bathroom rules was how power operates to control us at the most intimate levels … It was never about the rest rooms. It was about the power and control.”

[glitterbag]

6. hey

Anything new with you?

[marble falls]

7. Life is good.