This photograph shows James Zwerg, a college student from Wisconsin, after he was bęaten by a mob in Alabama for participating in the Freedom Rides.
Following the beating, he lost consciousness and was left unattended for hours as white ambulance crews refused to assist him. He was eventually taken to the hospital by an ambulance designated for Bląck patients. The incident took place in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1961.
At the hospital, Zwerg simply stated, “Segręgation must be stopped. It must be broken down.”
He’s still alive today at the ripe age of 85.
This isn’t ancient history.
cc: History Captain
It took 95 years for Congress to enforce the 15th Amendment’s prohibition of racial discrimination in voting through the Voting Rights Act. In 2013, the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the VRA in Shelby County v. Holder.
Now, the Louisiana v. Callais decision makes the VRA virtually impossible to enforce as states across the South move with all deliberate speed to dilute Black voting strength through mid-decade gerrymandering.
I’m fighting back with @TheBlackCaucus to restore voting rights protections through the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.
#TPS Haitian. Holders of TPS are not immediately undocumented. As of now, we are awaiting the announcement of the effective termination date from DHS. There is still time to push congress to act.
Texas sentenced anti-ICE protestors to 100 years in prison, but a serial pedophile to only 30 days. This is MAGA illustrating conservative contradictions…
This is a disgraceful day for our country and another example of the Trump-majority on the Supreme Court choosing to be a rubber stamp, rather than a check and balance.
Fascinating how any serious talk about the improvement of the lives of working people (outside of the frame of the culture wars) is labeled as communist or socialist.