Posts by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
(DIR) Post #9kn5pP5hGfTKW0no12 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:04:26Z
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What happened next is disputed by separate accounts by both the company, and LAAFL’s President Frank Morrison. The company maintains that 7 men in the union offices, which were located in an auto repair shop, opened fire on the 150 “deputies”, who then returned fire. Morrison’s account, relayed in 1920 in a letter to the NAACP, follows:
(DIR) Post #9kn5pQ9dJWDNoVeSn2 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:05:03Z
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“They drove up in their automobiles and without warning began to shoot. [Central Trades and Labor Council President Len] Williams was the first to appear at the door where he was shot dead, without a word being spoken by either side. Two other men, who were in his office at the time, were shot down, and the bodies of the three men fell one on top of the other in the doorway."
(DIR) Post #9kn5pQmcyXPHlRtbZQ by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:05:19Z
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The other men attempted to leave the building by the back door where two of them were shot down while coming out with their hands above their heads; the only shot fired by any man connected with the labor people in any way was fired by a young brother of Lem Williams who shot Captain LeBlanc in the shoulder with a .22-caliber rifle, after he had shot his brother to death. This Captain LeBlanc was a returned soldier and was placed in command of the gunmen.”
(DIR) Post #9kn5pRUwJmqtysczdg by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:07:36Z
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At the end of it all, Lem Williams, J.P. Bouchillon, and another union carpenter, Thomas Gaines, lay dead. Stanley O’Rourke was severely wounded and taken to the company hospital, where he ultimately died. Sol Dacus was able to once again escape and rejoin his family in New Orleans.
(DIR) Post #9kn5pRe9lWE0RSwM0O by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:10:39Z
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I've tried to find out what happened to Sol Dacus after he successfully fled Bogalusa to New Orleans, but sadly there's not much more about him after he fled. The only snippet I've been able to find is that he filed a suit against the Great Southern in federal court for $102,360 in damages from the original attempted murder on the night of November 21. The court, unsurprisingly, found in favor of the Great Southern.
(DIR) Post #9kn5pRz4VkxHUKj3bc by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:12:54Z
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They reasoned that the posse was there to serve an arrest warrant, not to murder Sol. Sol died without recovering any damages, as the posse "Took our spoons [and] all our children's clothes", leaving them "without a thing in the world". His attorney asked "You can't go back to Bogalusa?", he answered "Oh no sir; they would burn me", pointing at several members of the Great Southern's mob.
(DIR) Post #9kn5pSaIHMjHLm8mci by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:15:41Z
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I think about this a lot; how I never learned this in school, despite being just several miles from the site of the massacre. How the struggle for equality and against capitalism’s oppression through wage slavery is the struggle of all working people. If we’re not willing to stand shoulder to shoulder with our comrades, if we are not willing to die for what we believe in, then we are willingly giving ourselves over to the side of oppression.
(DIR) Post #9kn5pTDdv4ClJoYCxM by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:17:05Z
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In the event you've read this and appreciated the story, and are interested in the whole account, here's a link to the article "Bogalusa Burning: The War Against Biracial Unionism in the Deep South, published in the The Journal of Southern History, Vol. 63, No. 31919 in 1997."https://southinblackandwhite.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/bogalusaburning1.pdf
(DIR) Post #9kn5pTOHHWiBqnWhX6 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-12T18:20:11Z
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An additional author's note here: I am always hesitant to do threads like this because who wants to read a wall of text, and I'm just god awful at articulating my own personal feelings and beliefs that I often just decide to not do so. So I seriously appreciate everyone that took the time to read this. Thank you!
(DIR) Post #9kn9X3PrVzZZtdjxB2 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-13T01:36:46Z
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@nindokag hey thanks for reading both and I'm glad you enjoyed em! I've moved away recently but I still have a lot of friends and family down there who are (thankfully) good so far. They're all sandbagged up and prepped with hurricane supplies thankfully!Keeping my fingers crossed for everyone down there too ♥️
(DIR) Post #9kv78jxfbpzfLmkzxI by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2018-12-20T21:39:37Z
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Please boost this so I can smooch Eugen
(DIR) Post #9kvN2XS4nz9k582nIG by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-17T00:42:16Z
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Knees weak, paw spaghetti
(DIR) Post #9kvN2XxcugOReynzTE by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-17T00:42:30Z
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Knees weak, dog spaghetti
(DIR) Post #9kvN2YCs00aQQFwAEK by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-17T00:42:46Z
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Knees weak, arms spaghetti
(DIR) Post #9l1aCVjkV6wo0l9goK by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-20T00:15:45Z
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Starting a service where I hire 50 year old women to give you a hug and say "I'm so proud of you and what you've done"
(DIR) Post #9lQBt5Vycu1m2uEiSu by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-07-31T21:31:27Z
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@Aleums @jackdaw_ruiz @kioskwitch abyssal splittal strong as fuck
(DIR) Post #9lkCfXYVo4PmTaQWHI by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-08-10T13:11:00Z
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Yeet-za Hut 😂👌
(DIR) Post #9lzsxVSVYInzC3hmXg by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-08-17T16:15:04Z
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Doing some decorating
(DIR) Post #9m0wWew8ncfjkEyn0y by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2019-08-18T15:09:01Z
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@Gargron evergreen toot tbh
(DIR) Post #9rHbGd00etIo01eOx6 by anthonydavis@jorts.horse
2020-01-22T16:59:05Z
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Spokesnut.SPOKESNUT?! "SPOKESNUT"?!