Photo: 1964, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

[Miles Archer]

Things from the past
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1964. West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. Reverend Joe Carter stands guard on his front porch, expecting a visit from Ku Klux Klan after he dared to register to vote. Photo by Bob Adelman.

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[CatMor]

1. Hard to believe that was 1964 ...

seems more 1864. I will never understand how so many are so despicable that someone wanting to exercise their right to vote has to resort to that.

[CaptYossarian]

7. It's 1864 thinking.

The first thing they said in Dixie when they lost was "Damn. Now I have to do my own work."

They still "want their country back". The Teabillies were racist, dumb, and lazy. They also inspired Trump to become their Savior because he's got those same characteristics. He knew they needed a leader because they didn't know the Kochs were backing them. It was a marriage made in hell among all these evil SOBs.

1864 was the last time these fools thought America was great. Now we have 40% of America wearing red dunce caps.

[CatMor]

9. All so true. Will it ever change.

[bitterross]

14. Nope, it won't. Not for a very, very long time.

Sad to say, but I'm pretty sure that it will never change. Humans evolved to be tribal people. It once helped us to survive. Now it does quite the opposite. It helps us to kill and outcast anyone not in our tribe.

I fear we will actually annihilate one another completely before we can evolve to the stage where we appreciate diversity.

[CatMor]

17. I'm afraid you're right ...

it is sad because diversity is what makes the world exciting and interesting. Just think of a world without all the different foods, music, dancing, literature, art, architecture, languages skin color etc.

[Ohiogal]

2. Very chilling

And this happened within my lifetime. It’s just unbelievable to me that this kind of violence and hatred was commonplace in our country not that long ago.

[Marcuse]

3. Bright light - but armed neighbors were deployed around the perimeter.

[RT Atlanta]

4. fuck domestic terrorists

Dude leading from out front and consequences be damned - that's a leader right there with moral authority.

A little more info on the Reverend here: https://whospeaks.library.vanderbilt.edu/interviewee/joe-carter

[irisblue]

5. A bit more

Source--http://www.bobadelman.net/galleries/mehs/pages/139_bk_Rev.Carter-single.html#

Snip--"Reverend Carter, expecting a visit from the Klan after he has dared to register to vote, stands guard on his front porch, West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. 1964- “After Reverend Carter had registered to vote, that night vigilant neighbors scattered in the woods near his farmhouse, which was at the end of a long dirt road, to help him if trouble arrived. ‘If they want a fight, we’ll fight,’ Joe Carter told me. ‘If I have to die, I’d rather die for right.’ “He told me, ‘I value my life more since I became a registered voter. A man is not a first-class citizen, a number one citizen, unless he is a voter.’ After Election Day came and went, Reverend Carter added, ‘I thanked the Lord that he let me live long enough to vote.’'

There are many interesting photos there

[Karadeniz]

16. Thanks for the link...so much admiration for those brave people.

[Ohiogal]

6. Voting.

A privilege that many gave their lives for.

And something we should never take for granted.

[CaptYossarian]

8. +1000

[Sloumeau]

10. I loathe the Klan.

They are Nazis in sheets.

[IronLionZion]

11. In 2020

we still have GOP controlled states trying to stop minorities from voting be enacting all sorts of idiotic polices directly expunging voter registrations and closing polling places. In Texas, a fellow waited in line 7 hours to vote in the Dem primary. And I thought waiting 2 hours to vote for Obama was bad.

[czarjak]

12. It's what drove poor Southern Democrats to suddenly decide they were Republicans...

Racism then, racism now.

[Demovictory9]

13. amazing photo

[Warpy]

15. I'm a little surprised I survived the south in those days

since I had a big mouth and wasn't afraid to use it. I lived in NC when Bobby Jones was great grand poohbah or whatever the Klan called him and it was open season on Jews (I had the name) and Catholics (my mother wanted me to have the game) and the louts I went to school with didn't know which one to attack first. It was unpleasant and once I was outta there, I was gone forever.

I sincerely hope the Klanners took one look at Mr. Carter and what I hope is a shotgun and decided to go someplace else and get drunker, instead.

Because, yeah, it was like that and Klanners were the biggest cowards I have ever had the displeasure to meet.