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Thursday, February 23, 2017
BROWN-VS-BOARD OF EDUCATION
This is the
face of Brown-vs-The Bd of Education of 1954. Her family was a part of a class
action lawsuit to outlaw segregation based on skin color.
'Linda Brown
was born on February 20, 1942, in Topeka, Kansas. Because she was forced to
travel a significant distance to elementary school due to racial segregation,
her father was one of the plaintiffs in the case of Brown v. Board of
Education, with the Supreme Court ruling in 1954 that school segregation was
unlawful...In 1950, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People asked a group of African-American parents that included Oliver Brown to
attempt to enroll their children in all-white schools, with the expectation
that they would be turned away. Oliver attempted to do so with Linda, who was
in third grade at the time and barred from enrollment at Sumner Elementary. The
strategy was for the civil rights group to file a lawsuit on behalf of the 13
families, who represented different states.
With Brown's
name happening to alphabetically top the list of plaintiffs, the case would
come to be known as Brown v. Board of Education and be taken to the Supreme
Court. The lead attorney working on behalf of the plaintiffs was future Supreme
Court Justice Thurgood Marshall.'
[http://www.biography.com/people/linda-brown-21134187]
...Pandora
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Greatest Show on Earth. R.I.P. 2017
Greatest Shows Ringling Bros. World's was a circus founded
in Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling
brothers: Albert, August, Otto, Alfred T., Charles, John, and Henry). The
Ringling brothers were sons of a German immigrant, August Frederick Rungeling,
who simplified his name to Ringling once in America. Ringling Bros. and Barnum
& Bailey Circus is a United States traveling circus company billed as The
Greatest Show on Earth. The circus, known as Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Combined Shows, was started in 1919 when the Barnum & Bailey's
Greatest Show on Earth, a circus created by P. T. Barnum and James Anthony
Bailey, was merged with the Ringling Bros. World's Greatest Shows. The Ringling
brothers had purchased Barnum & Bailey Ltd. following Bailey's death in
1906, but ran the circuses separately until they were merged in 1919.
On July 16, 1956, at the Heidelberg Race Track in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the circus ended its season early, with President
John Ringling North announcing that it would no longer exhibit under their own
portable tents (see, Big Top) and starting in 1957 would exhibit in permanent
venues, such as sports stadiums and arenas that had the seating already in
place. In 1967, Irvin Feld and his brother Israel, along with Houston Judge Roy
Hofheinz bought the circus from the Ringling family. In 1971, the Felds and
Hofheinz sold the circus to Mattel, buying it back from the toy company in
1982. Since the death of Irvin Feld in 1984, the circus has been a part of Feld
Entertainment, an international entertainment firm headed by Kenneth Feld, with
its headquarters in Ellenton, Florida.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringling_Bros._and_Barnum_%26_Bailey_Circus]
As a child growing up in New York City it was an annual
event to go to the circus. I remember it being cold as heck. When I was dating
in the 1970’s we sat in the cheap seats and enjoyed the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’.
I brought my children when they were growing up. I have brought my
grandchildren as well. They walked the animals from [somewhere] to Madison
Square Garden. I remember the smells, the hay everywhere, and the people who
got their FRESH fertilizer from the ‘Pachyderm supply ‘uncut.
There was a time when there the ‘Side Show’s where people
were made spectacles. I’m not sure if it was exploitation or abuse. There was a
circus family at one time and they stuck together. There were the deformed,
some were cast outs because there were no institutions to help take care of
them and they could not take of themselves.
They tried to change with the times. Changing the
“Ring-Masters” from white males only to blacks and females. Times have changed,
and we know better than to abuse animals out of their natural habitat for our
own selfish pleasures.
This circus has been in business for over 130 years and now
like all good [or bad] things must come to an end. When you know better, do
better.
Europeans have been fascinated with spectators gathering for
centuries. Public beheadings have feel out of style since then.
…Pandora
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