Sunday, December 1, 2013

   
[1886 - Rex (Todhunter) Stout, mystery writer, born in Noblesville, Indiana]

      
[1897 - Cyril J. Ritchard, Tony Award-winning actor, born in Sydney]

      
[1911 - Walter (Emmons) 'Smokey' Alston, Dodger Hall of Fame manager, born in Venice, Ohio]

      
[1913 - Mary (Virginia) Martin, Tony Award-winning actress, singer, born in Weatherford, Texas]

      
[1933 - Lou Rawls (Louis Allen), Grammy Award-winning singer, born in Chicago]

      
[1940 - Richard (Franklin Lennox Thomas) Pryor (III), comedian, actor, born in Peoria, Illinois]

   

[1941 - The Civil Air Patrol is created by the Director of Civilian Defense]

[1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for disobeying Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish bus seats to white passengers]

Please Be Seated

To some of us, it seems like only yesterday that a Black woman was arrested for the crime of sitting down on a bus in Alabama and for not being White. Today, a Black man sits in the Oval Office at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because a majority of the US electorate said he should. By any measure this was one hell of a bus ride.

William's Whimsical Words:

The trip from Montgomery, Alabama, to Washington, D.C., takes only one lifetime, but it cost too many lives.

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