One more Question About the “Montgomery Tea Party”

<p>Like just about every interested person in the country, I&rsquo;ve seen the video of the &ldquo;Montgomery Sweet Tea Party,&rdquo; &ldquo;The Slamma in Alabama,&rdquo; &ldquo;Fade in the Water,&rdquo; and the other inventive titles given to the August 5th brawl.</p> <p>Briefly, some white pleasure boaters parked their boat in a spot that blocked the space where a large passenger boat, the&nbsp;<strong>Harriott II,</strong>&nbsp;needed to dock. Despite being asked to move their boat&nbsp;<strong>several times</strong>&nbsp;from the ship&rsquo;s loudspeaker, the white boaters refused. When a black man, who was the co-captain of the commercial boat, asked the white boaters, sometimes vehemently, to clear the space, and they still refused, he began the motion to untie it from the dock.</p> <p><a href="https://untiredteacher.medium.com/one-more-question-about-the-montgomery-tea-party-a60305b5390"><strong>Read More</strong></a></p>
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