Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.
A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.
Among Johnson's notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.
An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, "With my non-violent .38 special."
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My landlord is selling the place so now I gotta figure out where to move by the end of next month. My options are
Medium move seems like the worst of both worlds
so I guess it's mainly between small and big. I moved out here even though I didn't know anybody for the better politics and transit and stuff like that, and because I felt like I needed a change of pace to get myself out of a rut. But I've kinda fallen into a different rut and I feel like I was doing better with close friends for support, but I also got tired of hanging out with the same people all the time and it's hard to go out and meet people when there's chuds everywhere, but I haven't gone out too much here either bc I don't know people and I'm poor and I have anxiety. Probably either way I'll be looking for a new job since the commute sucks, especially in the winter.
I guess it basically boils down to, live in a cool place where I don't know people or live in a chuddy place where there's a lot of people I care about (who aren't chuds). I moved up two years ago to try it out and it's had ups and downs so idk whether it's what I want or not, meanwhile absence has made the heart grow stronger, and as much as the politics are shitty that's also all the more reason I wanna be there for my friends. Job-wise I'm directionless, there might be more opportunities up here but I'm very lazy or rather I hate the job search process. Uprooting everything at once is hard but I did it before. Idk.
To me it sounds like you want to do the big move.
Maybe, but the grass is always greener. There's a lot of perks of being up here and it seems kind of crazy to move to a chuddy area with how things are going. But I do have queer friends down there and they're intent to stay.