Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.

A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.

Among Johnson’s notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.

An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, “With my non-violent .38 special.”

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  • BirdBrained [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Is sudden dizziness something to be concerned about?? It stated last night when I was laying in bed, and it got to the point where is was interfering with my sleep. Now that it’s the morning I get having on and off moments of dizziness. I’m not dehydrated, I haven’t started or stopped any medication (I missed one day of progesterone idk if that matters though), the only new behavior is that I’ve started counting calories again and am eating less than I was for the past couple of week, but I’ve counted calories in the past before and never got this from that. I’ve got no other symptoms besides the dizziness. Also I didn’t drink alcohol yesterday and have not today, I did Friday though, and I have been drinking a lot in the past 3-4 weeks