A Black Man Who Just Didn't Give A F++k -Cecil Williams in the 1950s (REPOST...UPDATE)

[Deadpool1986]

Cecil Williams in the 1950s - and today. I am taking the liberty of posting Mr. Williams again so people can see him now. From my original post: I thought about this searing, beautiful picture today in light of recent events in the United States. I, like many others, shared it a few years ago on my blog, but it was only today that I finally found the name of the man in the photograph! His name is Cecil Williams and, he happens to be a photographer himself. The photo was probably taken by Mr. Williams mentor, John Goodwin, who joined him for a talk at Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina in September 2013 about their experiences as black photographers in South Carolina during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era. Mr. Williams, an Orangeburg, South Carolina native was a correspondent for Jet Magazine when he was only 15 and made national news after shooting some crucial pictures after the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre. This picture of Mr. Williams currently hangs over the water fountain on the Garden level of the Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/a-man-who-just-didnt-give-a-f-k-happy-black-history-month.189124/

 

[The Nigerian]

Cecil Williams in the 1950s - and today. I am taking the liberty of posting Mr. Williams again so people can see him now. From my original post: I thought about this searing, beautiful picture today in light of recent events in the United States. I, like many others, shared it a few years ago on my blog, but it was only today that I finally found the name of the man in the photograph! His name is Cecil Williams and, he happens to be a photographer himself. The photo was probably taken by Mr. Williams mentor, John Goodwin, who joined him for a talk at Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina in September 2013 about their experiences as black photographers in South Carolina during Jim Crow and the Civil Rights era. Mr. Williams, an Orangeburg, South Carolina native was a correspondent for Jet Magazine when he was only 15 and made national news after shooting some crucial pictures after the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre. This picture of Mr. Williams currently hangs over the water fountain on the Garden level of the Richland Library in Columbia, South Carolina.
http://www.thecoli.com/threads/a-man-who-just-didnt-give-a-f-k-happy-black-history-month.189124/

Hero.

 

[blackzeus]

. Just goes to show y'all no matter how light you were, nikka was nikka.

 

[KeysT]

@ him staring at the camera like

 

[Chesirecatdaddy]

Oh man don't tell me he's one o those lightskin nikkaz going extra hard for the cause

 

[bnew]

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1/11
@charise_lee
Cecil Williams, the guy from the iconic photo of him drinking from a “whites only“ water fountain
Living proof that it’s never really NOT so long ago



https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1967219164965396480/pu/vid/avc1/576x1024/7PoDw9vTWKD9w7Ts.mp4

2/11
@SR72SistaSoulja
God Bless him



3/11
@donnata93159697
The 60’s?



4/11
@donnata93159697
I remember.



5/11
@LindaBain
When I was 9 years old, I went to the store in Greenville, MS to buy shoes. I saw a water fountain that look like the ones in school. When I went over to drink, my uncle who was 16, shouted at me to stop. I didn’t notice the Whites Only sign on the wall. I will never forget it.



6/11
@Wonka_the_Great
We are bringing it back



7/11
@Skyjudge4NFL




8/11
@dStroemsborg
Not to forget it is still here

In 2025



9/11
@therockhas
Yep and democrats in VA still cheer for those days.



10/11
@tweetpotatoe
Stop it you’re stirring a drink that we never had and you neither STOP IT!!!



11/11
@Christa_lanne
Pretty soon MAGA will start building coffee shops, for whites only, no DEI allowed and wil just be acceptive of it




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