Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men
Fight appeared to start when a worker objected to a pontoon boat preventing a larger river boat from docking, and was attacked by a group of white men
Fun fact: the folding chair was invented by an African American in the early 1900’s.
Let’s give Nathaniel Alexander some detail!
https://www.thoughtco.com/nathaniel-alexander-folding-chair-4074172
Patent 997,108, filed March 10, 1911, and granted July 4 the same year
He was probably sick of swinging full sized regular chairs at racist chucklefucks, so he got to work streamlining the swingin’.