J

[J @jsch30]

A BIG and GRATEFUL THANK YOU to all those people in Martha's Vineyard who helped welcome the immigrants and showed them compassion.

[J @jsch30]

@nathaliejacoby1 nope, I'm out

[KyleTaylorLucas @KyleTaylorLucas]

I so love and yes, adore, the brilliant, uber-talented, hilarious, and so kind #MartinShort.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Clara B. Williams college professors did not allow her inside the classroom because she was Black.

But that didn’t stop her. She took notes from the hallway–standing up! She eventually graduated at the age of 51 and lived to 108 years old and saw her 3 sons become doctors.

—Clara Belle Drisdale Williams [1885-1993] was the valedictorian of the graduating class of Prairie New Normal and Independent College, now (Prairie View A & M University) in 1908.

She enrolled at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the fall of 1928, after taking some courses at the University of Chicago. While she worked as a teacher at Booker T. Washington School in Las Cruces, she also took college courses during the summer.

Many of her professors would not allow her inside the classroom, she had to take notes from the hallway; she was also not allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma.

She married Jasper Williams in 1917; their three sons became physicians. She became a great teacher of black students by day, and by night she taught their parents, former slaves, home economics.

In 1961, New Mexico State University named a street on its campus after Williams; in 2005 the building of the English department was renamed Clara Belle Williams Hall.

In 1980 Williams was awarded an honorary doctorate of laws degree by NMSU, which also apologized for the treatment she was subjected to as a student. She died at 108 years old.

[Ishmael @ishcontent]

@AfricanArchives We must always remind ourselves of the capability of pure evil. That adults are so hateful and evil and committed to racism that they would harm children. They still are capable and many still feel this way.

[J @jsch30]

@AfricanArchives Disgusting, #racist, and just plan wrong. I'm glad to say I don't and never will understand hating someone because of the color of their skin.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1957, Nashville's all-white Hattie Cotton Elementary School was destroyed by dynamite blast when black kids integrated the school.

—On September 9, 1957, as 19 Black six-year-olds integrated all-white elementary schools in Nashville, Tennessee, white church members—including one local minister—organized a persistent and violent campaign to oppose the integration of Nashville public schools. Outside Fehr Elementary School, one person held a sign that read “God is the author of segregation” and pursued two Black children walking to the school. Outside three different elementary schools that same morning, Fred Stroud, a white minister, sought to dissuade white parents from allowing their children to be educated alongside Black children by preaching damnation for those who did not uphold segregation.

The next day, 100 sticks of dynamite were thrown into Hattie Cotton Elementary School and exploded. Patricia Watson, the one Black elementary student who had been in class the previous morning, did not return. No Black children returned to Hattie Cotton Elementary School the following year, and no one faced criminal charges for the bombing.

Though Brown v. Board of Education determined in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional, for three years white residents in Nashville relied on intimidation and organized political resistance to maintain segregation in the public schools. In 1957, Nashville finally developed a “stair step program” which permitted a few Black elementary school students to enroll in eight elementary schools in their zones.

Throughout the summer of 1957, white segregationists in Nashville held intimidation rallies to terrorize Black families. In the days leading up to the first day of school, as Black parents pre-registered their children for school, mobs of white church members gathered outside buildings with signs calling segregation the “will of God.” One leader declared that “integration can be reversed” and that “blood will run the streets” before Nashville’s schools were integrated.

By the morning of September 9, out of the 126 Black children eligible to attend all-white elementary schools in their zones, only 19 Black children matriculated. Reverend Stroud gathered crowds at Glenn Elementary to preach about the evils of integration, and white people in cars outside of Jones Elementary held signs emblazoned with KKK iconography and Biblical quotes. As opposition grew throughout the morning, white mobs crowded the sidewalks and threw rocks and bottles at Black children and their parents who attempted to pass through the crowd. By the end of the day, half of the white students at Glenn Elementary School—nearly 250 children—had not arrived, as white parents chose to deny their children education rather than permit them to learn alongside Black children.

That evening, 300 white people gathered downtown and continued to threaten Black families who sent their children to school. They strung an effigy in blackface from a stoplight with a note pinned to its chest that read “this could be you.” As the mob around Fehr Elementary grew to at least 400, white people burned two outbuildings located on the property of a Black family that had sent their daughter to the school. The mob also continued to burn crosses on lawns of Black families who had dared to enroll their students that morning.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Force women to carry to term, deny them access to care while they're doing it

[Charlotte's Battle Against Glioblastoma (BAG) @alexeades1]

9.9.13 10 yrs ago 2day no diary entry 4 2day so another extract from the diary C/me was writing C's words
So let’s start from the beginning I was born 18/2/97 & 6.25am I came in2 life with a mop of dark hair blue eyes & a crying face of course! my parents told me that when I was taken home from hospital my older brother seemed confused & intrigued by the little creature that had entered his territory
That older brother is now an only child he should have known his sister longer than his parents
please follow if u want 2 learn more about my late daughters journey tweets start 16.7.23 raising awareness & funding 4 https://t.co/ypWcaw7UVm TY so much 2 all new followers it means so much

[J @jsch30]

@ilovenostalgia

[J @jsch30]

@KevinMKruse

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

“Thank you to the people who didn’t believe in me ... To those who thought they were putting water on my fire, you were really adding gas to it.” - Coco Gauff

[Stefan Moore ★ @2StefanMoore]

This is my beautiful Daughter who was diagnosed w/ #BrainCancer at 11 & left Earth at 13. 💔

Ashley was incredibly brave, strong, NEVER gave up & somehow, stayed positive throughout her battle.

We’d be so grateful for a follow to keep our Ashley’s story alive.

💜 𝒜𝓈𝒽𝓁𝑒𝓎 𝑀𝒶𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝑜𝓇𝑒 💜

[J @jsch30]

@RorgViking So sorry for your loss, but know they are together and with you always.

[J @jsch30]

@BerniceKing Congrats #CocoGauff!

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Wow. What a champion (in so many ways)! Congratulations, #CocoGauff! #USOpen2023

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

What Minnesota Democrats have passed this year with their ONE seat majority:

—Right to abortion
—Paid family & medical leave
—Legal weed
—Carbon-free electricity by 2040
—Universal school meals
—Automatic voter registration
—Refuge for LGBTQ+ people
—Gun reform

Voting matters.

[howardfineman @howardfineman]

The Logan Act makes it a federal crime for private citizens to conduct foreign policy on their own — not to mention making military decisions that contradict U.S. strategic goals. Elon Musk is doing both and should be locked up.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Disney CEO Bob Iger is set to make $27 million a year. Nearly 90% of @SAGAFTRA members scrape by on less than $27,000 a year.

Their fight is about fair pay, the future of jobs, & whether our economy works for working people, not just billionaire CEOs. I’m fighting by their side.