Tuesday, May 25, 2010
I don't think I've ever seen the photograph on the left before. That's Joan Trumpauer Mulholland in the middle, at a Jackson Mississippi Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in in 1963. Her mugshot is the photo on the right, from here.
It is remarkable to contemplate the courage of this person and the others who set about the task of ending apartheid in the United States. In this country it is still always about race in the end; in Arizona or in Kentucky, or anywhere, really.// posted by Bill @ 11:28 AM 
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