Cat Olson

ALC Math teacher with a passion for change (not just slope)

[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

#OTD in 1963, Medgar Evers was shot and killed in his driveway in Jackson, Mississippi, returning home from an NAACP meeting carrying t-shirts that read "Jim Crow Must Go." 


His wife and children found him at the door. I know what it means to lose your father to the violence he was fighting against. I know that loss never leaves you. Medgar's legacy endures because he refused to stop, and because his family carried his work forward. We honor him by doing the same.

[Cat Olson @116MathOlson]

@BerniceKing To be where he stood- to imagine him there- thank you to the King family

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Sixty-one years ago today, nonviolent foot soldiers seeking the fundamental right to vote crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and were met with brutal, state-sanctioned violence. What became known as Bloody Sunday shocked the conscience of the nation and exposed the cruelty of voter suppression.

The courage and discipline of those marchers, who remained committed to nonviolence even in the face of brutality, helped shift public opinion and led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Today, many of the protections that once safeguarded voters from racial discrimination have been weakened, and the work of protecting the right to vote remains unfinished.

Remember the sacrifice of those who marched.
Honor their courage through action. Continue the work of protecting the right to vote for every person.

Contact your members of Congress and urge them to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

#TheKingCenter #MLK #BloodySunday #VotingRights #JohnLewisVRAA

[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

#OTD civil rights activists marched from Selma to Montgomery for the right to vote. On the Edmund Pettus Bridge, they were met with brutal force on what we now call Bloody Sunday.

Voter suppression may wear new disguises, but progress is only won through persistence and collective action.

[Billie Jean King @BillieJeanKing]

On February 1, 1960, 66 years ago today, 4 Black college students sat at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC.

In doing so, they inspired thousands to stand up and march for equality and justice.

Remembering the Greensboro Four today on the first day of #BlackHistoryMonth.

[Niko @NikoLeMieux]

Yesterday as I was walking through Minneapolis with a friend I saw this Lexus parked terribly and commented to him: “get a load of this asshole’s terrible parking.” By complete serendipity, as if the universe itself was saying "be kinder with your spoken thoughts," right at that moment I heard a voice say “hey that’s my car, ICE grabbed me, I’m so sorry!” come from the passenger of a Jeep slowly passing by; the Jeep driver said she was the sister of the Lexus’ owner and that the two of them had just come back from picking her up from Federal detention. I went to go talk to the Lexus’ driver, but first I read the note on the windshield:

“THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY ICE. Please don’t hit or tow.” Neighbors put that there, and put a tarp over the window that ICE broke open so snow wouldn’t get in.

The Lexus driver, a short, brown haired white woman told me she lived in the area and was driving through looking for parking, when armed ICE agents speedily blocked off the street in front of her, and swarmed the white pickup truck in front of her grabbing its driver. She said people came from throughout the neighborhood with whistles to record them grabbing that driver, and as she was trying to leave, ICE agents swarmed her vehicle as well and proceeded to open her window and door and remove her from her car, slamming her facedown in the street. She said a Federal agent entered her vehicle and parked it like this, before taking her away. I don’t know the story of the pickup driver.

I'll be honest, I didn't really believe what I was hearing at first until she showed me the video that a neighbor filmed, confirming the whole story. I asked her to airdrop it to me so I could make this post.

This woman was just driving and minding her business one moment, and the next she was snatched, she told me that they said she was "obstructing an investigation." After 24 hours in Federal custody, they released her with only the white shirt she was wearing when I met her, into the -8F cold where her sister was waiting, and they didn't give her back her car keys. She came to make sure her vehicle was still there.

There's a lot of people on this platform making all sorts of excuses for the Federal government's despicable behavior in Minneapolis, but what it comes down to is this: they are out of control. They are Out. Of. Control.

This woman's story that I saw firsthand is emblematic of the institutional rot at the core of DHS, CBP, and ICE. The agents involved in both shootings this month were 8- and 10-year veterans, not untrained amateurs. There have been three homicides in Minneapolis thus far in 2026- 66% of them have been US citizens murdered by the Federal government. My city is being subjected to a full-fledged occupation by lawless, unprofessional, un-American thugs. They have gone far beyond their stated mission of removing violent criminals and illegal aliens. They have all of us looking at every SUV, every vehicle with out-of-state plates, every vehicle with more than 2 men in it with caution, scrutiny, and concern. Many of my friends have bought guns or have gone to get their conceal carry permits, to stay safe from their own government because it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six.

Minneapolis will survive this and will come out stronger for it, because we learned in 2020 that there's no one coming to save us, it's up to us to show up for our friends and neighbors. But people need to know that if the Federal government are doing this to us: You're not safe. You're next.

[ً @NIYMUSE]

Snl nailed this. What’s been their reality
for a week has been ours for generations.

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Good—but remember—ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed.

ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.

ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

We honor the life of Claudette Colvin, whose courageous refusal to surrender her seat as a teenager in Montgomery, Alabama was one of several acts of resistance that challenged segregation before the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Ms. Colvin later became one of the plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the federal case that reached the Supreme Court and led to the end of bus segregation. Her life reminds us that progress is shaped not only by moments, but by sustained courage and truth. May we honor her legacy and continue the work of justice.

[The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center @TheKingCenter]

Seventy years ago, the Montgomery Bus Boycott showed the world the power of courageous, disciplined nonviolent resistance.

Dr. King’s leadership, and a united community, proved that injustice can be confronted with love, truth, and collective action.

Honoring 70 years of moral courage.
#BusBoycott70 #Nonviolence365 #BelovedCommunity

[Martin Luther King III @OfficialMLK3]

#OTD in 1963, civil rights leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in the driveway of his home in Mississippi.

We remember him not only as a leader but as a man who loved his family. His legacy lives on in every step toward freedom and equality.

[Cat Olson @116MathOlson]

@NWSTwinCities What time in the am will it hit? I'm in WBL.

[Cat Olson @116MathOlson]

@BerniceKing At MLK JR Night in Mn last night!

[Cat Olson @116MathOlson]

@BerniceKing Honored to be at the Target Center last night with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

We love to quote #King in and around the holiday, but then we refuse to live King 365 days of the year.

As we approach the King Holiday Observance, I urge us all to do more than quote my father. These are urgent and uncertain times, and the world needs us to embody his teachings of nonviolence, justice, and love.

This is your call to action. Together, we can make this #MissionPossible: Protecting #Freedom, #Justice, and #Democracy in the Spirit of #Nonviolence365.

Join us in living the legacy every day of the year.

#KHO2025 #MLK #KHO

[Emmett Till Interpretive Center @etic_tillcenter]

Tune in this Sunday, December 1st for @CBSSunday at 9AM ET/ 8AM CT for a segment about Wright Thompson’s The Barn, featuring Rev. Willie Williams, ETIC’s Board Chair.

[The Legacy Sites @LegacySites]

A statue of civil rights champion John Lewis was unveiled at the Legacy Plaza in downtown Montgomery, AL. This statue is the first life-sized sculpture of John Lewis in his home state.

[Jerry Mitchell @JMitchellNews]

#onthisday in 1946, future U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall was nearly lynched in Columbia, Tennessee, just 30 miles from where the Ku Klux Klan was born.

He and his fellow NAACP lawyers had come here to defend Black men accused of racial violence. In a trial, Marshall and other NAACP lawyers won acquittals for nearly two dozen Black men.

After the verdicts were read, Marshall and his colleagues promptly left town. After crossing a river, they came upon a car in the middle of the road. Then they heard a siren. Three police cars emptied, and eight men surrounded the lawyers. An officer told Marshall he was being arrested for drunken driving, even though he hadn’t been drinking. Officers forced Marshall into the back seat of a car and told the other men to leave.

“Marshall knew that nothing good ever happened when police cars drove black men down unpaved roads,” author Gilbert King wrote in “Devil in the Grove.” “He knew that the bodies of blacks — the victims of lynchings and random murders — had been discovered along these riverbanks for decades. And it was at the bottom of Duck River that, during the trial, the NAACP lawyers had been told their bodies would end up.”

When the car stopped next to the river, Marshall could see a crowd of white men gathered under a tree. Then he spotted headlights behind them. It was a fellow NAACP lawyer, Zephaniah Alexander Looby, who had trailed them to make sure nothing happened. Reporter Harry Raymond concluded that a lynching had been planned, and “Thurgood Marshall was the intended victim.” Marshall never forgot the harrowing night and redoubled his efforts to bring justice in cases where Black defendants were falsely accused. (Portrait is by Ernest Shaw and is displayed at the Maryland State Capitol.)
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[Cat Olson @116MathOlson]

@Ben67010350 @BSchaefer02 @3RonJohnson Ok, it wasn't my imagination!