In 1939, five young Black men walked into the public library in Alexandria, Virginia, asked for library cards, were refused, and then simply sat down at the tables and read.
They had rehearsed for weeks. What to wear. How to speak. What to do with their hands.
It is one of the earliest sit-ins in American history โ twenty-one years before Greensboro.
The lawyer behind it was Samuel Tucker, who had grown up two blocks from that library, paid the taxes that funded it, and was not allowed inside.
They were arrested for disorderly conduct. Photographs ran in the papers: young men in suits, reading quietly, being led out.
The city's answer was to build a separate small library for Black residents rather than open the one that existed.
Tucker refused to ever use it. He wrote to the city that he would not accept a segregated library card, and he never took one.
The library is named after him now.
Five men in good suits, sitting down with books, and a city that would rather build a whole second building than let them turn a page in the first one.
Black man interrupts a Republican convention waving a Mexican and Palestinian flag and screaming โimmigrants are welcomed here.โ Wtf is wrong with the Black mind man? Like why?
If they pass a balanced budget amendment, I will short the living shit out of the stock market and become richer than a sewer rat with 24kt golden spoon in its mouth.
๐จ DESANTIS: Trump's $5k checks will create more debt and inflation.
DeSantis goes on to give a masterclass on how conservatives should govern, reducing all taxes including property taxes, and creating a Constitutional Amendment forcing Congress to balance the budget.
WOULD YOU SUPPORT @GovRonDeSantis IN 2028?
.@VP in Dallas: "We just had a protestor interrupting us and waving the Mexican flag. Well, my friend, if you love Mexico so much, get your ass over there โ I'll buy you the plane ticket."
I'm so proud of my Cali brothersโผ๏ธ
Black Men want NOTHING to do with Glockeshia in California or in any of the other 49 statesโผ๏ธ
As I preach everyday...
White Queens 4EVER Glockeshia's NEVERโผ๏ธ๐ธ๐ผ๐คด๐ฟ๐ช๐ฟ
TWO SENIORS, including a man pushing 90, are accused of armed cocaine and marijuana trafficking and running a drug den in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood. https://t.co/6ecjN7AB1g