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spike jones

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3. I was a ten-year-old country boy living in the segregated south in 1955 and Davy Crockett lived in my head 24/7.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 10:37 AM

Aug 2025

It was about two years later that I made the connection between Emmett Till and the Civil Rights movements going on and clearly saw what segregation had hidden from me.

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August 28, 1955 Emmett Till was lynched. [View all] spike jones Aug 2025 OP

I believe that the date of the March on Washington - August 28th, 1963 - rurallib Aug 2025 #1

So appropriate. Boomerproud Aug 2025 #2

I was a ten-year-old country boy living in the segregated south in 1955 and Davy Crockett lived in my head 24/7. spike jones Aug 2025 #3

and the whole push behind the one good guy against the state rurallib Aug 2025 #4

Yeah, I learn that too much later and posted it here several years ago. Many if not all Texans do not know that truth. spike jones Aug 2025 #5