A knock at the door and a bus that was too yellow

The authoritarianism of small things

In 1962, Fannie Lou Hamer led 17 people to a courthouse in Mississippi to register to vote. They were denied the right. On the way home, they were pulled over, harassed, and fined $100 because their bus was “too yellow.”

Drinking from a water fountain. Sitting in the wrong seat. Expecting service at a lunch counter. The civil rights movement is littered…