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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social

Yesterday was the 60th anniversary of a brave man dying for what was right. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonatha...

aug 22, 2025, 1:33 am • 226 54

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Randolph Lee Welty @randolphleewelty.bsky.social

Only 26 and the person he saved is still alive. My goodness.

aug 22, 2025, 1:37 am • 4 0 • view
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NB Aging Dad @bigtotoro.bsky.social

I tell my kid all the time that a lot of this history happened just before I was born. It wasn't Ancient Egypt.

aug 22, 2025, 1:40 am • 6 0 • view
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Jerry Brennan @jerrybrennan.bsky.social

WTF.

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aug 22, 2025, 1:41 am • 1 0 • view
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michaelmacsween.bsky.social @michaelmacsween.bsky.social

I’m an atheist but if there is a hell I hope he and the twelve, who failed in their duty, are all roasting there.

aug 22, 2025, 3:57 am • 2 0 • view
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buckeyebeth.bsky.social @buckeyebeth.bsky.social

Thank you for sharing this story 💔

aug 22, 2025, 2:26 pm • 0 0 • view
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Damn Vanguard @damnvanguard.bsky.social

A real g. There are a great many people on this here internet who talk tough about revolution and don't have a tenth of the balls this man had.

aug 22, 2025, 1:50 am • 0 0 • view
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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social

One sign of how many little-know civil rights martyrs there are is that I grew up deep in the Episcopal Church and just heard of this.

aug 22, 2025, 1:35 am • 6 0 • view
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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social

Also the past isn’t even past. My parents were teenagers in August 1965.

aug 22, 2025, 1:40 am • 1 0 • view
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John M @john-m-indy.bsky.social

My son, born in 2007, received his First Communion from a Catholic priest who was at Selma.

aug 22, 2025, 2:35 am • 3 0 • view