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Go, Johnny, go! (lemmy.world)
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Johnny Gray, 15, punches a white student in Little Rock, Arkansas, on June 16, 1958. Johnny and his sister Mary (standing behind him) were walking to their segregated school when the two white boys in the photo ordered them to get off the sidewalk.

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[–] 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

There's a prior picture.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Does anyone reading this know about Johnny Gray's later life? I'm clicking the internet and not finding anything yet...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Page 23 here has an application from a person whose age, name, and place of living kinda matches, so maybe it was him

    If that was him then maybe this record is about him, too. I don't know if Ancient Faces is crowd sourced or gets information from archives, but it reports death on July 18, 2001

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    • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Fuck yea Johnny, get 'em!

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    [–] 13 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    He really put his whole body into that punch

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    • [–] 8 points 1 month ago

    Lucky there was a photographer on hand ready to capture that.

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    [–] 7 points 1 month ago

    Johnny be good

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    I love seeing marketplace of ideas in action 🙂‍↕️

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    [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    If you're not right in the head you might get punched in the head

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    [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    The headline led me to believe that this took place deep down in Louisiana but it actually took place in Little Rock, Arkansas. Do better journalists. /s

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    [+] -12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    Two angry kids fighting because adults fucked their heads, and other adults applaud it.

    Dunno, quite a sad scene for my liking.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Sad that the kid, who probably isn't "fucked in the head," had to deal with two racist fucks. Hopefully they at least learned that black people can kick their ass just as well as anyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    These racist fucks his fighting are just the same children. Their behavior was conditioned by adults in a way that makes them thinking they are more entitled to a sidewalk than that other kid. They have not developed enough soundness to be able to reflect on that.

    They for sure learned that fighting proves a point.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    And those adults were taught that same thing by their parent generation. No one just decides to randomly become bigoted, almost everyone who is becomes bigoted because of propaganda and indoctrination, so at what point does someone have to take responsibility for their own bigotry, and when can you just blame it on the people who indoctrinated them ?

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