July 27, 2004
Alabama Deputy Discovers Civil Rights Era Artifacts
MONTGOMERY, Ala. - A sheriff’s deputy who was cleaning a basement storage room stumbled upon a box containing a trove of artifacts from the civil rights era, including black-and-white mug shots of Rosa Parks and a young Martin Luther King Jr.
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~I wish I lived in a time when my arrest could have historical significance, instead of just another disappearance, another flush by the status quo. That my loss, my suffering would one day be associated with so many others real-life gains?
Compare that kind of celebrity with a Britney, a Brad Pitt, a Princess Di or a Jonny Versace and you see what a extravagantly lame monster-construct fame has become.