She Raised Her Fist Before He Could Raise His Baton
Black History Year
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🗓️ 22 September 2023
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She raised her fist before he could raise his baton. WHAM. The police officer fell to the ground. He looked up at her, eyes burning with rage. She smirked down at him. She was not to be played with.
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| 0:00.0 | She raised her fist before he could raise his baton. |
| 0:07.1 | Wham! |
| 0:08.1 | The police officer fell to the ground. |
| 0:11.1 | He looked up at her eyes burning with rage. |
| 0:14.6 | She smirked down at him. |
| 0:17.0 | She was not to be played with. |
| 0:20.0 | This is too in a black history. |
| 0:22.5 | What you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:32.1 | Born in 1910, Annie Lee Cooper didn't witness a black person voting until she was 14 years |
| 0:39.0 | old. |
| 0:40.5 | Voting became Cooper's dream. |
| 0:42.7 | She'd ever imagined her dreams would lead to punching a police officer. |
| 0:47.5 | Yet, in 1962, Cooper attempted to vote in Selma but was denied. |
| 0:54.2 | This pattern continued for years. |
| 0:56.3 | Still, Cooper continued to show up to vote, sometimes waiting in line for 9 hours just |
| 1:02.2 | to be denied again. |
| 1:05.3 | One day, her employer saw her waiting in line. |
| 1:08.6 | Cooper was fired and blacklisted, making it nearly impossible for her to find work. |
| 1:15.1 | In 1965, Martin Luther King arrived in Selma to co-organize a national voting campaign. |
| 1:22.6 | Again, Cooper was one of the hundreds who stood in line to register to vote. |
| 1:28.6 | The police arrived and the infamous local sheriff Jim Clark violently poked Cooper with |
| 1:35.2 | his baton. |
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