May we never forget the history of Sanford, Florida.

[limpyhobbler]

May we never forget the history of Sanford, Florida. How could so much happen in one place? It was in Sanford that Harry T. Moore, pictured here, the NAACP's lone man in Florida and the first casualty of the modern civil rights movement, took his last breath after his home was firebombed in 1951.

Moore, a teacher by training, risked his life in the 1930s and '40s, long before Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks came on the scene. He investigated lynchings, protested segregated schools and taught black people how to vote in a state where the NAACP was a banned organization, where, according to his biographer, "no restaurant would serve him, no motel would house him, and some gas stations wouldn't let him fill his tank, empty his bladder or even use the phone."

On Christmas night, 1951, a bomb exploded under Moore's bed at his home in Mims, Fla. It was his and his wife's 25th wedding anniversary. The closest hospital was 35 miles away -- in Sanford. There was a delay in getting the couple there. Then there was a delay in getting a black doctor to attend to them. They both died in Sanford. No one spent a day in jail for their murders.

One of Moore's recruits was George Starling, a citrus picker who led strikes in the groves for better working conditions; the work was dangerous and the pay was nickels for a day's labor. It was in Sanford that Starling had a final standoff with a grove owner that set in motion plans to lynch him. He fled to New York for his life.
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complete piece: http://worleydervish.blogspot.com/2013/07/freedom-never-dies-songs-for-days-of.html

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[niyad]

1. k and r--and thank you for the reminder

[ReRe]

2. K&R

[tavalon]

3. I always knew Sanford as the ugly depot that we passed

while taking the train from Central Fl to Ft. Lauderdale. I never had the least desire to see more of it.

[Sam1]

4. Branch Ricky had to help Jacky Robinson get out Sanford during his first spring training camp

with the Dodgers.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. 2 Florida men accused of attacking Black teen, damaging car as they drove by

These racist assholes were arrested

Link to tweet

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-florida-men-accused-attacking-black-teen-friend-damaging-car-rcna34082?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma

Two white men were arrested after being accused of harassing a Black teenager and damaging his car as he drove through a Sanford, Florida, neighborhood.

The alleged incident happened Tuesday just before 6 p.m. in the Lake Forest neighborhood, an upscale area of Seminole County. It was partially recorded on cellphone video by the teen, Jermaine Jones, and shared on Facebook by his father.

Two men identified by the Seminole County Sheriff's Office as Donald Corsi, 52, and Howard Hughes, 61, are seen in the video screaming at Jermaine.