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Monday, July 29, 2024

Monday Night Open Thread – July Dregs Require Something to Inspire and Aspire to

Just trying to survive the rest of the worst month and make it to August, which is even worse. Don't even get me started on September, the gum-stuck-on-the-bottom-of-the-shoe month. Followed by October. UGH. There's even a big "NO!" at the beginning of No!vember. Enough complaining. Let's just look at this iconic image of civil rights leader Gloria Richardson in Cambridge, MD from June 1963:

She seriously doesn't have time for your bullshit
And a few more from the same protest:
Look up the word fierce in the dictionary


She's someone you should get to know if you don't know. She fought to desegregate an entire town and succeeded (mostly - stuff gets complicated) is the short version:

She died in June of 2021 at the age of 99. In July, of course. As an interesting side note, her second husband was the photographer Frank Dandridge, who documented the movement for Life Magazine in the 60s. He photographed the sole survivor of the Birmingham church bombing. It's still hard to look at but it's important and it's here along with many other photos and a partial bio. Dandridge trivia: he went on to script TV shows including Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, The Incredible Hulk, and St. Elsewhere. Staff writer on Generations. Assigned to take pics of this dude in '66 at some place called Woodstock:



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