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Post by alxeu on Aug 24, 2019 15:25:07 GMT -5
The New Years' March
It may have been an oddly cool day in the nation's capital, but Lukas would still have come in rain, hail, or snowstorm, so what was a little chill? Today was the day that made all the other days of struggle worth it: today was the day they would begin the push to truly end the unfair segregation that held its vice-grip on Lusatian society.
Marcin King was to speak today from a podium surrounded for over a mile in every direction by those wishing to hear what he had to say, supporters and enemies alike. Soon enough, Lukas saw King stand on the podium, and begin his speech:
"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation..."
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Post by alxeu on Sept 12, 2019 21:44:57 GMT -5
Winds of Change in the AirTo some, it might have seemed that true change was going to arrive years later, but, to an increasingly greater extent, the old way of doing things was beginning to give. Slowly, but surely, as the months passed on, more and more places were giving in to the protesters and desegregating the lunch counters. The Kazimierzgrad Farmer's Market would open its stalls to Eoni farmers, and no longer discriminate whose produce was allowed to be sold there. Multiple states, independent of the national government, began passing legislation desegregating commercial businesses, with legislation preventing businesses from refusing service based on race.
However, success doesn't always engender more success, and as the Civil Rights Movement succeeded through the Summer of 1960, cracks began to form. For some, even these sudden changes were too little, and the movement was growing too big, too fast. Reverend King began to receive criticism for his non-violent ways, and some began to talk of a separate group, intended to achieve equality through any means necessary. On the opposite side of the coin, states that retained their segregationist policies began to double down on their stances: doing any (legal) means necessary to attempt to dissuade protesters, but there was already talks of going further, and it seemed likely that as the Civil Rights Movement continued to grow, there might be a confrontation within the next year.
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Post by alxeu on Sept 18, 2019 14:49:46 GMT -5
The Return of the Reverend
After a week of protests outside the jailhouse Reverend King was being detained in, the demonstrators outside the jail were becoming increasingly restless. The warden of the jail had requested city permission to end the detainment, as they had nothing but bureaucratic hurdles left to keep the Reverend in jail since he had done no wrong, but the city government kept delaying the release for increasingly mundane reasons, before reasons stopped being given entirely. Today, however, the leader of the protesters, an Eoni who went by the alias "Citizen Seweryn" (as a means of associating with Eonivelt, which did not have formal last names for those within their nation), decided that enough was enough. He delivered to the guards of the jailhouse a warning: release King, or the demonstrators would become rioters. Attempt to arrest the demonstrators, and they'd become rioters. He pointed out the oppressive tactics of the police having made attempts at a peaceful resolution impossible within a reasonable amount of time, and so he had decided that if peaceful protests wasn't going to work, then threats of violence just might.
After a back-and-forth discussion between the warden and the Miklasgrad city council, the warden, tired of fighting with the council, went over them to call the King's privy council, and request permission to release Reverend Marcin King. The royal advisers informed King Stanislaw, who was shocked to hear that King was still being held despite being obviously free of wrong-doing. He immediately ordered King's release, which the warden was happy to oblige. That night, Reverend King was freed from the jailhouse, glad to be free, but soon took a stand against Seweryn's threats, saying to the crowd that while threats had worked this time, all they served to do was inspire further anger and hatred in their opponents' hearts, and therefore turned against the movement's ideals of bringing the nation together. Seweryn countered it was his demands that had freed the Reverend, and argued that violence, or at least threats of such, should not be ruled out, as otherwise, those in power may not see any gain for themselves to end segregation.
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