Unknown, Dyer's textile pattern book
mid 19th century
Part of RISD Museum (Rhode Island School of Design)
Woodcut on paper; Cotton plain weave, resist printed
30.8 x 23.5 x 2.5 cm (12 1/8 x 9 1/4 x 1 inches)
I'm in awe of how we ran historical revisionism on the civil rights movement so bad that people truly believe it was quiet self-sacrifcial non-disruptive christ-like activism that forced progress and not — like — the incredible economic pressure of boycotts and outbreaks of illegal civil disobedience
Yapping to the choir but eughhh it burns me up girl effective protests have to be loud and inconvenient for change to happen because silent cries die in the dark that's the entire pointtt