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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apologies in advance for treatbrained binoclard-ery, but i just learned this after a lifetime of plastic dorkery and worn out broken figures and model kits.
you can fix loose ball joints on figures and models and the like by just putting plastic wrap on the ball of the ball joint and reassembling. you can tear or cut away excess wrap, maybe even paint over or get colored wrap, and there are no chemicals to deal with or worry about interacting with the plastic and paint chemicals. i just saved a ~50$ JoyToy power armor figure with loose hip joints with this trick. i was about to try to haggle for a refund or replacement, or failing that buy some floor polish or something to paint on the ball joint, but this is way easier and, crucially, cheaper.