Sunday Open Thread: June 11 is Kamehameha Day

Politics
On June 11, 1920, during the Republican National Convention the Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to choose their candidate for President. As a result, the A.P. coined the phrase "smoke filled room".
US History
It is 4 days until Juneteenth; 4 days and 152 years and equality before the law, let alone full equality is still pretty much of a hoax.
Civil Rights
On June 11, 1963, George Wallace stood in a door at the University of Alabama trying to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending 'Bama. With the help of federalized National Guard troops, they were able to register later in the day.
Also on June 11, 1963, JFK proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that would revolutionize American society. The act was intended to guarantee equal access to public facilities, end segregation in education and protect voting rights.
On June 11, 1971, The U.S. Government forcibly removed the last Native American Occupiers of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of Native American control of said surplus property.
Science
On June 11, 1935, Edwin Armstrong demonstrated FM broadcasting for the first time in the US, paving the way for the "Album Rock" stations of the sixties
Art
On June 11, 1936, The London International Surrealist Exhibition opened. 58 artists participated plus 12 others who exhibited objects ---
Dali was there
And Magritte
the Penguins, (with Johnny Otis grinning in from the left)
the Moonglows
The Orioles,
and The Five Satins

Comments
Thanks for the open thread EL.
Some births and deaths on June 11
BORN ON JUNE 11
Richard Strauss: Musical Composer 1864-1949
Jeannette Rankin: U.S. Representative, Women's Rights activist
Jacques Cousteau Filmmaker, Military Leader, Scientist, Photographer, Inventor, Explorer
Charles Rangel: U.S. Representative, Civil Rights Activist
Gene Wilder: Actor, Author, Comedian 1933-2016
Died on June 11
King George I: Great Britain’s first Hanoverian king
John Wayne: Actor
Ornette Coleman: Saxophonist, Songwriter
Thanks, though I could do without John Wayne. Ah well.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
morning el and c99ers
It's another beautiful day here - quite a contrast to last years hot and dry summer.
Wallace was quite the politician. After he lost his first political race he said he would never be out niggered again. As bad as his race related bias (He had a "change of heart" in later years), he was also a populist along the vein of Huey Long. He improved roads and built community colleges all over the state - lifting many (mainly white) folks out of poverty.
Sadly Alabama uses its prison system to enforce racism today. There is a movement working to combat this policy http://freealabamamovement.com/ I slide back and forth thinking we've made progress to we've gone backwards. I'm afraid the real goal is to make America like Alabama again. I hope for all our sake, they fail in that goal.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Make America Alabama again - terrifying
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Major history math error — Juneteenth is 8 days away, not 4
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
big holiday in Texas
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere.” —General Orders, Number 3; Headquarters District of Texas, Galveston, June 19, 1865
Yep, that's where it started.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Since it is an open thread
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
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