• Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Bad example. There was tons of violence related to this boycott. There is always violence in a U.S. protest because conservatives insist upon it.

    From Wikipedia:

    King’s and Abernathy’s houses were firebombed, as were four black Baptist churches. Boycotters were often physically attacked.

    Two days after the inauguration of desegregated seating, someone fired a shotgun through the front door of Martin Luther King’s home. A day later, on Christmas Eve, white men attacked a black teenager as she exited a bus. Four days after that, two buses were fired upon by snipers. In one sniper incident, a pregnant woman was shot in both legs. On January 10, 1957, bombs destroyed five black churches and the home of Reverend Robert S. Graetz

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      7 months ago

      i thought you had meant violence from the protest itself not also the reaction to it