MicroWaveAug 8, 2023

Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants

https://lemmy.world/post/2844368

Large brawl in Alabama as people defend Black riverboat worker against white assailants - Lemmy.world

Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men

Show threadTransplantedSconieAug 8, 2023

Damn man. Someone was beaten over the head with a folding chair?

rocking song starts playing

“Ba gawd! That’s the riverboat captain’s music!”

Show threadcodybrumfieldAug 8, 2023
Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.
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Let’s give Nathaniel Alexander some detail!

thoughtco.com/nathaniel-alexander-folding-chair-4…

Patent 997,108, filed March 10, 1911, and granted July 4 the same year

Biography of Nathaniel Alexander, Inventor of a Folding Chair

Nathaniel Alexander patented a folding chair with a book rest to be used by churches and choirs in 1911. Learn what evidence there is about his life.

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Aug 8, 2023 at 3:11amWeb