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Category: Civil Rights

Tallahassee v Rock Hill?

Posted on 2019-02-02 by Curtis Hertwig

Seems fitting to post this on February One… So, last week I had to be in south Georgia any way and I decided to dip down to Tallahassee to shoot the State Capitol & Governor’s Mansion (see the State Caps page). I was surprised to NOT find a Confederate memorial on the grounds, but owing…

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Brown v Board of Education Repeats

Posted on 2019-01-14 by Curtis Hertwig

Are you tired of bookends yet? I know I am. So I’ll refrain from using that metaphor again. However, I had 3 encounters that brought back that landmark decision wherein “separate but equal” was found to be the steaming pile of shite that it was. Rah! Rah! So, my first encounter was in Farmville, Virginia…

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Mini-Bookends Within the Bookends

Posted on 2019-01-122019-02-02 by Curtis Hertwig

Many of us are aware of the famous sit-in at the FW Woolworth’s in Greensboro, NC. It rocked the world. Not so many were aware of the Friendship Nine who staged a similar protest at the McCrory’s lunch counter in my mother’s hometown of Rock Hill, SC. Now considered a suburb of Charlotte, Rock Hill…

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Bookends in Birmingham

Posted on 2019-01-072019-02-02 by Curtis Hertwig

If you ever want to see a lot of Civil Rights landmarks, just go to Alabama. Not sure if they’re the worst at Civil Rights or if they’re just willing to own up to their failures, but they sure have lots of memorials, museums and other sites. Still, considering the support for Roy Moore, they…

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Back to the Beginning to Understand the End

Posted on 2019-01-062019-02-02 by Curtis Hertwig

This trip began with one plan; morphed into another plan; but then has come full circle back to the original plan. Of course, life will do that to ya, just before it goes off in another direction. Nonetheless, when you travel you must be open to whatever comes at you and I didn’t appreciate my…

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