MACON, Ga. — Over 300 workers at Kumho Tire company have unionized– making them the second biggest company in recent months to join the United Steelworkers. The other is Bluebird in Peach County. Four years ago, James Golden said he needed a career change.   “I knew Kumho was a new plant, so I wanted to go somewhere I could grow,” he said. Golden says as a belt operator, he likes the job but noticed that the company could use some change too.  “With it being a new plant, there was a lot of confusion about pay, confusion about fair labor practices,” he said. “I said, ‘yeah, we definitely need a union here.’” Golden said he wanted to learn more about how to unionize and took a trip to their union hall.

Macon, la cité administrative.

1563 1st Avenue, Macon, Georgia.

Macon, Georgia, USA. 1969

Photo: John Simmons

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Help bring justice for Righteous TK "Chevy" Hill

TW: Black trans murder Please reblog and help spread word on this, per the request of Evollusion ATL & Righteous' family!

[Photo ID: White flyer with red and black text. Two photos of Righteous TK "Chevy" Hill on top, a Black man smiling and then serious. Three photos of Jaylen Hill, also a Black man, are underneath with large 'WANTED' text over each of them. Two are neutral expression face photos, one with a white beanie hat and one without. The middle photo is Jaylen standing in a kitchen pointing a gun at the viewer with one hand. Text reads: 'Help bring justice for Righteous TK "Chevy" Hill. Seeking justice! Righteous TK Chevy Hill was tragically murdered in front of his home. We urgently need your help in capturing Jaylen Hill. Jaylen Hill has ties to Columbus and Macon, Georgia as well as the greater Atlanta area. He is considered armed and dangerous. Contact East Point Homicide Unit at (404) 270-7069 or Crime Stoppers Atlanta at (404) 577-TIPS (8477). Submit tips anonymously online at www.stopcrimeatl.org or by texting CSA and the tip to CRIMES (274637). No need to reveal your identity. Reward up to $10,000! Email: Detective Graham at [email protected].' /End ID]

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Jo Ann Gibson Robinson ,unsung activist (April 17, 1912 – August 29, 1992) was a civil rights activist and educator in Montgomery, Alabama.Known for initiating the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, AL, USA

Born near Culloden, Georgia, she was the youngest of twelve children. She attended Fort Valley State College and then became a public school teacher in Macon, where she was married to Wilbur Robinson for a short time. Five years later, she went to Atlanta, where she earned an M.A. in English at Atlanta University. After teaching in Texas she then accepted a position at Alabama State College in Montgomery. It was there she joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier. In 1949, Robinson was verbally attacked by a bus driver for sitting in the front "Whites only" section of the bus. Her response to the incident was to attempt to start a protest boycott. But, when she approached her fellow members of the Woman’s Political Council with her story and proposal, she was told that it was “a fact of life in Montgomery.” In late 1950, she succeeded Burks as president of the WPC and helped focus the group's efforts on bus abuses. Robinson was an outspoken critic of the treatment of African-Americans on public transportation. She was also active in the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.

The Women's Political Council had made complaints about the bus seating to the Montgomery City Commission and about abusive drivers, and achieved some concessions, including an undertaking that drivers would be courteous and having buses stopping at every corner in black neighborhoods, as they did in European areas. After Brown vs. Board of Education, Robinson had informed the mayor of the city that a boycott would come and then after Rosa Parks arrest, they seized the moment to plan the boycott of the buses in Montgomery.

On Thursday, December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move from her seat in the African area of the bus she was travelling on to make way for a white passenger who was standing. Mrs. Parks, a civil rights organizer, had intended to instigate a reaction from white citizens and authorities. That night, with Mrs. Parks permission, Mrs. Robinson stayed up mimeographing 52,500 handbills calling for a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. The boycott was initially planned to be for just the following Monday. She passed out the leaflets at a Friday afternoon meeting of AME Zionist clergy among other places and Reverend L. Roy Bennett requested other ministers attend a meeting that Friday night and to urge their congregations to take part in the boycott. Robinson, Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, two of her senior students and other Women's Council members then passed out the handbills to high school students leaving school that afternoon. After the success of the one-day boycott, African citizens decided to continue the boycott and established the Montgomery Improvement Association to focus their efforts. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. was elected president. Jo Ann Robinson became a member of this group. She had denied an official position to the Montgomery Improvement Association because of her teaching position at Alabama State. She served on its executive board and edited their newsletter. In order to protect her position at Alabama State College and to protect her colleagues, Robinson purposely stayed out of the limelight even though she worked diligently with the MIA. Robinson and other WPC members also helped sustain the boycott by providing transportation for boy-cotters.

Robinson was the target of several acts of intimidation. In February 1956, a local police officer threw a stone through the window of her house. Then two weeks later, another police officer poured acid on her car. Then the governor of Alabama ordered the state police to guard the houses of the boycott leaders. The boycott lasted over a year because the bus company would not give in to the demands of the protesters. After a student sit-in in early 1960, Robinson and other teachers that had supported the students, resigned their positions at Alabama State College. Robinson left Alabama State College and moved out of Montgomery that year. She taught at Grambling College in Louisiana for one year and then moved to Los Angeles and taught English in the public school system. In Los Angeles she continued to be active in local women's organizations. She taught in the LA schools until she retired from teaching in 1976. Jo Ann Robinson was also a part of the bus boycott and was strongly against discrimination.

After 190 years more than 6000 pages of slave purchases were discovered IN MACON, GA

I would venture to say that if they had never elected a Black clerk, they would have never found the dusty records which had been sitting there all the time.

By Stephen Millies

Jason Aldean — whose music video “Try That in a Small Town” is an incitement to racist violence — was born in Macon, Georgia. Macon isn’t a small town, but it has a terrible racist history.

There’s a crescent wrench somewhere under that tow truck.

Macon, la ZUP Nord.

Some adolescents in Bibb Mfg. Co. Macon, Georgia. 1909 January

Photo: Lewis Hine

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