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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  • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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    1 year ago

    Damn, going through the original Gundam shows, on Zeta rn, and I wish people had told me before how political this was.

    And I dont mean like, oh this has an IRL political point to make, but that the shows themselves feature a lot of politics to frame and lead the stories, I love that shit. Can't stand IRL political dramas cause so many of them are just reinforcing real world hegemony, but fictional political dramas fuck so hard to me.

    Edit: Also I fucking love Kai so much, guy decides that he's too much of a coward to keep piloting mechs so instead he decides to become a freelance investigative journalist against the fascist government, what a king.