Images from the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. in 1964

In Focus, the photography blog at The Atlantic, is running a five part series of images from 1964 -- 50 years prior to the date of the posts.  The second set is a particularly moving series of images from the U.S. civil rights movement -- I hadn't seen most of them before.  Here are two from June 1964 in St. Augustine, Florida, a city that saw a lot of protests -- and violence -- arising from its laws mandating racial segregation
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Caption from In Focus: "Ivory Ward, 43, sits in his car, with a hole in his windshield that he said was made by a bullet fired from a truck driven by white men, after African Americans marched in an integration demonstration, June 10, 1964, in St. Augustine, Florida. (AP Photo/JK)"

Caption from In Focus: "A state police officer with club in hand overtakes a white segregationist, as African Americans attempted to swim and were attacked by a large group of whites at St. Augustine Beach, Florida, on June 25, 1964. The state police arrested a number of whites and African Americans. (AP Photo)"

"The Fool's Tale": Dramatis Personae

Today we take a short pause from our blogging to present the characters to an semi-autobiographical sequel to the Canterbury Tales, The Fool's Tale. Based on the people with whom I work, this will only be up for a short period before it's taken down.  

To be sure there's some exaggeration here and there -- some dramatic license is necessary, it's a story -- but I have no doubt all of the characters could easily identify themselves and everyone else.  The humor is in "you've got to know these people -- that's so true" type of nonsense, but since you'll never meet most of them, well, you'll just have to make do. Yet The Fool's Tale itself will never be written -- I have no plot -- and if it were written, then the story would need a self-reflective subtitle: How the Fool Lost His Job.

Our characters:

Yum, Delicious Seawater

Seawater (possibly from Moorea, French Polynesia?) magnified 25x, taken by David Liittschwager.  Link via Colossal. LARGE IMAGE HERE.