White citizens were more than a little upset by the black folks demands for equality during the Civil Rights Movement. And they were especially upset about black "disrespect" in the south. And white people all over the country were even further incensed by The March on Washington and Martin Luther King's famous speech in 1963.
And according to a Smithsonian Museum, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which killed four little girls, was a revenge bombing for that famous civil rights march which had taken place a month earlier.
Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson,
That placard at that Smithsonian --which somehow managed to leave the "white" out when describing the folks that did the bombing and endorsed the bombing, both-- didn't give a source of the information.
It occurs to me quite often lately that history should be taught as linked events because in real life people have hopes, fears, base motives, and legitimate desires. History is a story. No doubt more than one subjective story will have to be told about an event to get the full picture. But if history is taught the same way as it was when I was a kid, as disconnected events with dates, that's going to continue to encourage those with the most power to insert lies into the gaps.
Not mentioning the race of good and bad actors in history unless the people are categorized as not-white, does the same thing --makes sure we don't really know our history.
And if the old adage is true:
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And according to a Smithsonian Museum, the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, which killed four little girls, was a revenge bombing for that famous civil rights march which had taken place a month earlier.
Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson,
Addie Mae Collins, and Cynthia Wesley
And I was quite curious about how this link came to be known because I've known about Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, Denise McNair since I was a kid myself. And relatively recently I've come to know that Angela Davis knew one of the girls, that the whites of Birmingham were dropping bombs on "disrespectful" blacks so often that black folks called the city "Bombingham."
But I'd never heard The March On Washington and The Four Little Girls linked so directly before that day in the Museum.
It occurs to me quite often lately that history should be taught as linked events because in real life people have hopes, fears, base motives, and legitimate desires. History is a story. No doubt more than one subjective story will have to be told about an event to get the full picture. But if history is taught the same way as it was when I was a kid, as disconnected events with dates, that's going to continue to encourage those with the most power to insert lies into the gaps.
Not mentioning the race of good and bad actors in history unless the people are categorized as not-white, does the same thing --makes sure we don't really know our history.
And if the old adage is true:
Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it
...this would tend to explain the mess the United State and the rest of the white western world is in right now. We are definitely repeating some of our history right now.
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