@moonbus saidGood One Moon,
USA: Rosa Parks
Called "the mother of the civil rights movement," Rosa Parks invigorated the struggle for racial equality when she refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama. Parks' arrest on December 1, 1955 launched the Montgomery Bus Boycott by 17,000 black citizens.
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@Very-Rusty
Coincidentally, the same year I was born, in the South. I still remember signs in restaurants which read “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone,” which was doublespeak for “no Blacks.”
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@moonbus saidGeeze Moon,
@Very-Rusty
Coincidentally, the same year I was born, in the South. I still remember signs in restaurants which read “we reserve the right to refuse service to anyone,” which was doublespeak for “no Blacks.”
We are all getting old...Here in my part of Canada you didn't associate with people of a different race or religion. Of course every thing has changed now the many different races and religions mix now. ( The actual change began when I was a teenager)
Back in the day People had big families and everyone went to Church, my area was mainly Roman Catholic. I remember this one Black family they had around 10 or 12 kids. They boys all wore suits and the girls were well dressed. They would walk up and sit in the front row. They had the children all line up in single file and would put them in order of their height from shortest to tallest and the Mom would lead them in and the Father would take up the back. I remember no one sat in that front row it was almost like it was reserved for them although there were no signs up. They were very well behaved.
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@moonbus saidHe was well liked and had a big following back in his hay day in Westerns. They called him the Duke! You don't want to go to parts of the U.S.A. and talk badly about him. If you do carry a weapon as you may need it. 🙂
Sorry, but I can't agree with that one. The stereotype he embodied on the silver screen is repugnant. The one good thing I can say about him, as a human being (not the characters he portrayed), is that he played chess during takes on set.
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@kevin-eleven saidSorry never heard of him. Will have to look that up.
Darren Wang Ta Lu of Taiwan
*sigh*
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