Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social

I’ve written at length in recent years about the pre-Montgomery Bus Boycott battles that Black southerners waged against Jim Crow. There’s an attitude that the modern Civil Rights Movement was a sudden explosion, but it was the fruit of years of planning. And superhuman courage.

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 05, 2024 at 16:54 UTC

If we have many more examples of authoritarianism in American history than we would care to admit, we also have many examples of Americans refusing to submit to it. That gives me hope.

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