Colonel Stone Johnson, born on the 9th of september in 1918, was a black worker in the civil rights movement who served as a bodyguard for homes, businesses, and people involved in the movement.

A railway worker and union representative by trade, he got involved in the civil rights movement in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid 1950s, working with Fred Shuttlesworth. He started a civil rights organization called the Civil Rights Guards that protected homes and business involved in the movement, usually while armed.

Among Johnson’s notable acts was helping carry a Ku Klux Klan bomb away from Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL and serving as a bodyguard to Martin Luther King Jr. He also provided armed protection to non-violent activists in Anniston, Alabama during the 1961 Freedom Rides, rescuing them from a segregationist mob.

An oft-repeated remark of Johnson, when asked how he managed to protect civil rights leaders, given his commitment to non-violence, Johnson replied, “With my non-violent .38 special.”

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  • FactuallyUnscrupulou [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I’ve found the whole idea of theme is lost on most folks I talk to. Everything is surface level. There cannot be underlying meaning to anything, if there is it’s deceptive propaganda. I’ve heard the generalization lately that Americans have a certain attitude of anxiety or desperation.

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      I’ve heard the generalization lately that Americans have a certain attitude of anxiety or desperation.

      as they should, given their living conditions