Regional Belonging Quotes
The Southern authorities were particularly angry with people form the North coming South to demonstrate over unconstitutional and immoral segregation laws. Northerners were considered as having no business with Southern desegregation. Mrs. Peabody, and the wives of a number of wives of Christian Bishops, black and white, went to a restaurant in St. Augustine and requested service which was contrary to the segregation laws of Florida at the time. The women were arrested. The act of civil disobedience in integrating the restaurant was one act of a planned desegregation strategy worked out with Martin Luther King’s SCLC organization. The mature age of the women and their prominent husbands brought a great deal of newspaper coverage which is just what the demonstrators wanted. The photo is of Mrs. Peabody getting arrested. See {637404} and {637406} for more on this incident.
This was his major justification for occupying and annexing the Crimea. He had a good historical point. The Crimea had been a part of Russia for centuries, and many Russians had died defending it over the years. At the high pont of the strength of the Soviet Union, the Soviet leadership reorganzied the "states" of the nation and placed the Crimea in the State of Ukraine -- which they also considered part of Russia and from where the great Russian hero, Alexander Nevsky came and unified Russia. When the Soviet Union broke up, Ukraine became an independent coutry and assumed Crimea belonged to it, based in the last administrative reorganization of the area before the break-up. However, most of the commerce in Crimea was with Russia proper and not Ukraine. And the Crimeans were mostly ethnic Russians or Taters--a minority who had no historical or cultural ties to Ukraine. Neither group spoke Ukrainian much. 90 percent of the Crimeans wanted to Remain with Russia and not be part of Ukraine. This was the main reason that the Russians were so easily able to send armed soldiers in civillian dress into Crimea to size the territory--the vast majority of the indigineous Crimean poluation wanted them there and strongly favored annexation claiming that they had the right as American President Woodrow Wilson put it to "self determination". Bit Ukraine would hot allow a formal plebicite. So Russia sized Crimea, had the plebicite, and based on the results and the desires of Putin and the Russian leadership, annexed Crimea.
