Velocity22 🏴‍☠️Nov 24, 2022

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.

The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him

Show threadClavedoc
@Velocity2222 I recall drinking coffee in tge early hours outside a lower 9th community centre in New Orleans (we were first to spend night there post hurricane). My friend pointed out when he first came to new Orleans he and travelling companion could only share coffee at greyhound bus station; only nonsegregated cafe. Amazing how this level of legal discrimination is within lived memory.
Nov 24, 2022 at 5:09amWeb
Show threadDonnaNov 24, 2022
@clavedoc @Velocity2222 - Ruby Bridges is 68, a few months older than me.