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I've posted about this before but Rosa Parks lived long enough to sue OutKast in 1999 over their use of her name in their song 'Rosa Parks'.
Per the link it isn't clear if she wanted to sue or if it was her caretaker and legal representation. I really hope it wasn't her idea.
Looks like her family didn't think it was her choice so I'ma take that at face value.
Huh, I never read too much into it but it definitely sounds like that might be the case.
This Billboard article from the time of the 2005 legal settlement mentions:
"The settlement ends a legal dispute that some of Parksβ own relatives had criticized, saying she wouldnβt have minded the use of her name in the song βRosa Parksβ had she not been mentally impaired. "
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"After that lawsuit was filed, some of Parksβ relatives began questioning her well-being and the actions of her caretaker and the lawyers who filed the suit, and alleged she is probably unaware of the lawsuits."
So perhaps while she did technically live long enough to sue OutKast, she was suffering from dementia at the time and it's possible that she was unaware of the actions taken in her name.
The more you know!
It really shouldn't be TOO surprising, but she was a bit of a fighter. Particularly when it came to her civil rights in most matters, but also in reguard to her own name and likeness.
Same year as Barbara Walters. But also Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly. Yasser Arafat. Ed Asner. June Carter Cash. And, famousbirthdays.com tells me, TikTok's Gangsta Grandma.
Edit: They were all born the same year Wyatt Earp died.
THE FUCK!
'Member that song "74-75" by The Connells? That was a big hit in the Nineties.
We're now at 31 years after the release of this single and 49 years after the class of 1975 graduated.
From 1843 to 1865, Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai.
It was brought up in the movie, "Lincoln", that the "Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection" by Charles Darwin was already published at the height of the US Civil War. Somehow, I disassociate the two events as being on completely different time period.
Lincoln and Darwin were born in the same year, 1809.
And to really blow your mind: Charles Dickens was born 3 years later, and not, say, a hundred years before.
Did Japan have any fax lines though? Unless you're talking about a samurai that left Japan
If you were born in 1976 or earlier, your birthday is closer to the production of the Ford Model T than it is to today. Have a nice day :)
I'd kick your arse if my knees weren't fucked
I'd help you except for my back
I miss horns that went auUUUga
That also means, if Anne Frank and MLK, were alive today, they would only be in their 90s.
95, to be precise. Only two years older than William Shatner.
And younger than Jimmy Carter
Yeah, people often forget how long people live after major events in history and are surprised the underlying issues haven't gone away. We still have people from the wrong side of the civil rights movement in leadership positions.
At no point in my HS history class did our teacher mention that she was alive and living a few hours away from us.
To be fair, I'd say teaching you guys should be proof enough of her non-corpse status that she didn't have to tell you outright π€·
Imagine if we still had racism in the distant futuristic year of 2000 ...
Cleopatra lived closer to the moon landing than the construction of the great pyramids in Egypt.
And the tyrannosaurus rex lived closer to said moon landing than to time the stegosaurus existed too.
Really that's interesting
Jurassic Park was one lie after another.
The Doritos Locos taco at Taco Bell has been around longer than the Confederate States of America ever was.
Buuut, the Confederacy lasted twice as long as Pepsi Crystal.
Most things fit that description. I have tires on my truck that fit that description.
I'm an older millennial, born 1984, recently turned 40.
My gramps was born 1909. Not only was he alive during WW2, he was of fighting age. Not only did he fight in WW2, he was actually one of the oldest guys in his unit, seeing as he was over 30 when he got drafted.
WW2 and other first half of the 20th century shit isn't anywhere as far back in time as it feels it is.
I remember my great-grandma talking about picking cotton in the field one day, and being scared out of her mind when an airplane flew over her head. She'd come to Texas from California on a covered wagon, had never lived in a home with electricity, and hadn't heard about the flying machine being invented.
I helped her set up an email account about a year before she died.
You and I were both born closer to WW2 than to today.
What always gets me is Pablo Picasso died in 1973. For some reason I always thought he was around a century or two earlier.
I think it's because we always imagine artists as being from the olden times.
Yeah, I considered him a Renaissance artist in my mind.
Which means that Shrek could have been Rosa Parks's favorite movie of all time.
Your title got me too.
I've always found it interesting how a black and white photo can distort our perception of when something happened.
Was researching million man March for a presentation. Some of the first pictures were in bnw even though it happened in the 90s.
My conspiracy side says it's deliberate. π€·ββοΈ
Black and white film remained popular for decades after color film because it had different properties and could be easier to work with. Some photographers also preferred the aesthetic. Before digital photography became as good as film, B&W continued to be used in professional photography.
Appreciated. π
Oh it gets better (or worse?) there are plenty of color photographs from Dr King's 1963 march and speech. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/kennethbachor/rare-color-martin-luther-king-photos
At least this is somewhat more excusable since newspapers were still mostly using B&W. The color photos would have been for the weekly or monthly news magazines which were using color.