#joe clarendon

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South Carolina Passes Bill to Maintain School Segregation Six Years After Brown v. Board Decision Struck it Down

On May 13, 1960, six years after Brown v. Board of Education, South Carolina’s legislature passed a bill to preserve school segregation and stall Black citizens’ attempts to integrate public schools using the authority of federal courts.

On the last day of the 1960 legislative session, South Carolina lawmakers voted for a bill that, on its face, repealed language that declared the state would provide funding to “racially segregated schools only.” However, as local media accurately reported, the legislation was a “maneuver to thwart integration by the fiction of seeming to give in a little to it.” The bill did nothing to change another state law that mandated the closure of any school for white students that admitted a Black student. The bill also left in place provisions requiring racial segregation on school buses and in cafeterias.

In 1951, state lawmakers established the South Carolina School Committee, the first of its kind in the country. Despite its seemingly neutral name, the committee was composed of state legislators and members appointed by the governor and conducted “enormous research” during the 1950s and 1960s to identify ways to circumvent the Constitution and keep schools segregated. The press regularly referred to the group as a “segregation committee,” seemingly reflecting knowledge of its true purpose. During the 1956-1957 legislative sessions, the committee's work led South Carolina lawmakers to pass the law restricting state funding to “racially segregated schools” and to also design a school-choice policy that allowed the state to continue operating all-white schools.

Committee members also designed this 1960 repeal bill as a way to “fight integration suits while in no way relaxing restrictions on the mixing of the races.” Legislators and other members of the Committee feared that keeping laws that included explicit language that mandated segregation would enable aggrieved Black students to successfully challenge South Carolina’s racist policies in federal court. By removing the plain language of segregation, the Committee aimed to keep Black plaintiffs “languishing for years” in state court by depriving them of the strong evidence of discriminatory intent, while still achieving the same result: segregated schools. Representative Joe Rogers of Clarendon County, South Carolina, a member of the Committee, publicly endorsed the new legislation and assured ardent segregationists that South Carolina was “as resolute as ever” in maintaining racial apartheid.

South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings also applauded the legislation repealing the explicit segregation language, declaring it a move to “bolster, rather than to weaken, the state’s rigid stand against mixing the races in public schools.” However, lawmakers and the governor delayed signing the bill into law, since federal intervention was not yet actively enforcing desegregation in the state. In August 1960, the Committee reported that public schools remained “orderly” and segregated, and Governor Hollings let the bill quietly die. In 1961, as South Carolina faced the loss of federal education funding due to its insistence on maintaining racial segregation, the Committee revived the bill and Governor Hollings signed it into law in July 1961. School desegregation did not begin in the state for another two years.

The massive resistance campaign that white communities waged against efforts to desegregate public schools in the U.S. was largely successful in delaying implementation of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in the South. Until the fall of 1960, every single one of the 1.4 million Black school children in the five states of the Deep South attended segregated schools. By the start of the 1964-65 school year, less than 3% of the South’s Black children attended school with white students, and in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, that number remained substantially below 1%. In 1967, 13 years after Brown was decided, a report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights observed that white violence and intimidation against Black people “continue[d] to be a deterrent to school desegregation.” Learn more in EJI’s report, Segregation in America.  

[a-muscle-the-size-of-your-fist]

HELP I am potentially adding more muses! Up for consideration:

Poppy (Poppy Playtime)

Joe "Beaver" Clarendon (Dreamcatcher)

Edward "Evil Ed" Thompson (Fright Night 2011)

Edith Rose Sawyer/Heather Miller (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Maurice "Frenchie" Theriault + Valak (The Nun)

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Merry Xmas from Joe and his Morris Minor parked up at Clarendon Cross with the long gone Portland Arms in the background.

[esoterium]

by request only muses.

// these muses are muses i would love to write but are less popular on the blog! they are now by request only. feel free to send memes or approach for plots, etc! they are always open and ready to go but i will prefer some plotting beforehand and have a little bit of an idea where we are heading out the gate! current partners and threads are good to go as usual. much love!

–THE WALKING DEAD.

name: daryl dixon age: 30+ and timeline dependent sexual preference: straight(ish?) occupation: survivalist, jack of all trades, dog dad faceclaim: norman reedus notes: i’m willing to play all timelines up to the end of season 11. so far, i’ve not watched twd: daryl dixon. i don’t plan to til i find out what happens with carol in it. tbh i’m not interested if they hurt her. lol! so i’ll be divergent with my own canon til then.

name: rick grimes age: 23+ sexual preference: bisexual, mostly curious til plotted occupation: father, husband, former deputy, leader, survivalist faceclaim: andrew lincoln

name: beth greene age: 25+ (prefer to write beth post season 7 and plotted!) sexual preference: straight occupation: former farmer’s daughter, survivor, thief faceclaim: emily kinney notes: heavily divergent. was found by a surgeon of the hospital and taken in. they have remained together since then. she is a thief/nomad who lies on the outskirts of the commonwealth and has yet to be encountered.

–STEPHEN KING'S UNIVERSE.

name: pete moore age: 32+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: wanted to be an astronaut but became a car salesman faceclaim: timothy olyphant fandom: stephen king's dreamcatcher, derry crossovers welcome!

name: joe 'beaver' clarendon age: 31+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: the comic relief, the divorced drunk, the seer faceclaim: jason lee fandom: stephen king's dreamcatcher, derry crossovers welcome!

name: stanley "stan" uris age: 12+ sexual preference: bisexual occupation: the birdmad boy, accountant, the one who remembers faceclaim: wyatt oleff, andy bean fandom: stephen king's it, primary muse from it.

–ANNE RICE'S NOVELS.

name: nicolas de lenfent age: appears 21 sexual preference: bisexual occupation: violinist, playwright, mad vampire faceclaim: none

name: santino age: appears 32 sexual preference: bisexual occupation: former coven leader, wanderer faceclaim: none

– GENERAL HORROR.

name: lydia deetz age: 39+ (will only write her in the first era w/ est. partners!) sexual preference: bisexual occupation: photographer faceclaim: winona ryder fandom: beetlejuice (film! see above for musical!)

name: ellison oswalt age: 35+ sexual preference: straight occupation: famous true crime author, currently on a comeback? kinda hated by some. mostly cops. and district attorneys. and most law enforcement. faceclaim: ethan hawke fandom: sinister

name: grace le domas age: 26 sexual preference: straight, bi-curious occupation: former server at a high end restaurant, writer, survivor of a hell of a honeymoon night faceclaim: samara weaving fandom: ready or not

name: timothy price bryce age: 27+ sexual preference: homosexual straight occupation: another vice president of mergers and acquisitions at pierce & pierce faceclaim: justin theroux fandom: american psycho notes: heavily influenced by headcanons. please see rules @traintracked as they are unique to him for extremely important reasons!

name: laurie strode age: 18+ sexual preference: demisexual occupation: babysitter (younger), former headmistress && teacher, writer faceclaim: jamie lee curtis fandom: halloween

– && OTHERS

name: terry bellefleur age: 35+ sexual preference: open minded occupation: retired military, jack of all trades, construction worker faceclaim: todd lowe fandom: true blood

name: elon "eli" spengler (canon but HEAVILY developed damn near oc) age: 35+ / verse dependent sexual preference: demisexual occupation: professor of microbiology and abnormal psychology and brain studies at columbia university, extremely hesitant paranormal researcher, inventor, scientist, environmentalist, wastebuster, former researcher at the cdc. faceclaim: jeff goldblum fandom: ghostbusters notes: my favorite movie of all time. elon is a canon but never truly expanded on twin brother of egon spengler. i'm making them fraternal. elon or eli as he prefers to be called in honor of his grandfather is an absolute paranormal magnent and the reason why egon became so fascinated with the paranormal (and a means of researching it) to begin with. in spite of what was told to their parents and the outside world.

eli was plagued with visits, whispers, dreams and sights of the dead. something he feared, hated and was terrified of. not only because of the nature of what he was seeing and his age. but how their scientifically minded parents and family would view his claims. eli did not go egon's route of understanding. instead. he went the opposite trying to rationalize his fears, visions and hauntings in hopes of the problem 'ceasing to exist'. where one was an outcast (egon), eli was viewed as conforming to the spengler mindframe and fit in with his family.

a guilt he carries now as all his willful ignorance and blind eyes never truly worked (the ghosts? nightmares? everything is still there) and with egon dead? has only worsened. it's with the arrival of an anonymous letter warning him of what is about to pass in new york city than the reclusive spengler has made himself known and extremely reluctantly involved with his brother's former teammates. all of egon's inventions. those that exist and never were are inside of his mind. his brother's research, thoughts, ideas? it's all there. he's just never told anyone.. and who knows what he's willing to give up?

[dankusner]

OBIT He wrote hilarious, loving obituary for his dad

INSPIRED Son declares ‘He is God’s problem now’

When Charles Boehm sat down in his Houston home to write his father’s obituary, he was stumped.

“I’d never written an obituary before, so I decided to Google, ‘What do you put in an obituary?’” said Boehm.

His father, Robert Adolph Boehm, died Oct. 6 at age 74 after falling and hitting his head in his Clarendon, Texas, apartment.

Boehm, 41, found the usual tips online about including a summary of the person’s life and a list of survivors.

Then he stumbled upon an old obituary for Joe Heller of Centerbrook, Conn.

“Joe Heller made his last undignified and largely irreverent gesture on September 8, 2019, signing off on a life, in his words, ‘generally well-lived and with few regrets,” it began.

“When the doctors confronted his daughters with the news last week that ‘your father is a very sick man,’ in unison they replied, ‘you have no idea.’”

The obituary then informed readers that Heller had left his family with a house full of junk, 300 pounds of birdseed and various dead houseplants.

“I read it, and I thought, ‘That sounds like something my dad would do,’” Boehm said.

“He made a lot of obscene gestures.”

He then decided, why not make his father’s obituary as funny and unpredictable as he was in life?

Boehm said he broke into a grin as he began typing the first sentence:

“Robert Adolph Boehm, in accordance with his lifelong dedication to his own personal brand of decorum, muttered his last unintelligible and likely unnecessary curse on October 6, 2024, shortly before tripping backward over ‘some stupid motherf---ing thing’ and hitting his head on the floor.”

It continues:

“Robert was born in Winters, TX, to the late Walter Boehm and Betty Smith on May 6, 1950, after which God immediately and thankfully broke the mold and attempted to cover up the evidence.”

From there, he was on a roll.

Smile on your face

He wrote about how his dad took up shooting in his later years and managed to blow not one, but two holes in the dashboard of his car.

He said his dad had a penchant for fashion and was frequently seen about town wearing the latest trend in homemade leather moccasins, a wide collection of unconventional hats and boldly mismatched shirts and pants.

“We have all done our best to enjoy/weather Robert’s antics up to this point, but he is God’s problem now,” Boehm wrote at the end, advising everyone to wear whatever outdated or inappropriate clothing they liked to his dad’s farewell tour on Oct. 14 in Amarillo.

He then sent the obituary to Robertson Funeral Directors, the Clarendon mortuary that was handling his dad’s cremation.

Mortuary owner Chuck Robertson said he almost choked on his breakfast from laughing when he read it.

“I told people in the office, ‘Well, this is going to get us some attention,’” he said.

“I’d never had a family come through the doors that wrote an obituary as classic as that one. It immediately puts a smile on your face.”

Read far and wide

As soon as Robertson shared Robert Adolph Boehm’s obit on the mortuary web page and on Facebook, people read it far and wide, he said, noting that it has now been viewed more than 1 million times.

“Clarendon is a town of 2,000 people,” he said.

“I knew a lot of people would love it, but I was shocked when it really started to blow up.”

Strangers from around the country have left comments on Boehm’s obituary, Robertson said.

“I never met this man but sure am sorry our paths didn’t cross. If my family doesn’t love me enough to do an obituary like this I don’t want it,” wrote a commenter named Amber.

“Ohhh Robert!! You sound like the life of the party in more ways than one! I can only imagine the chaos in heaven now!!” someone from Virginia posted.

A woman named Nikki summed it up for many readers:

“To the person that wrote this obituary, please write mine! RIP good sir!”

Boehm said his father would be delighted that his legacy has caused a stir.

“There are some people who might think it was irreverent and offensive, but I think it sounds about perfect,” Boehm said of the obituary.

“To me, it pretty much describes my dad.”

Charles Boehm, the youngest of four children, said his father was an eccentric and upbeat man who had struggled in recent months since the death of his wife, Dianne Boehm, in February.

“When I tried to get him some mental health help, he admitted to me he was scared and wanted me there with him,” he said.

“We all visited him when we could, and the good people of Clarendon looked in on him and helped him out a lot. But it was hard for him looking at my mom’s empty chair, and I’m 600 miles away.”

As Boehm packed up his father’s belongings after his death, he said he realized his dad’s spirit and character were much bigger than the sum of what he could haul away in a trailer.

He recalled being home-schooled by his father after he started having problems at school.

“I was always a tinkerer, and so was my dad,” he said.

“He’d take me to junk stores to buy little gadgets so I could take them apart. And he’d get me lots of textbooks from the library.”

Small fire in tent

“He’d make sure I understood the material, and he set an expectation that I’d study until I could answer every question,” said Boehm, who received a general education diploma when he was 16.

Robert Boehm worked a lot of jobs and finally settled on becoming a truck driver, he said.

“For a while, my parents were team drivers, and for at least a year or two, I actually lived on the truck with them,” he said.

“I got to see a lot of stuff, I read hundreds of books, and I learned how to sleep in a car anywhere in the Lower 48.”

One of his favorite memories happened about two years ago, Boehm said, when his dad accompanied him and his three sons on a camping trip.

“He was trying to make coffee in his tent at night using this homemade burner thing, and he started a small fire and burned a hole in the tent,” he said.

“He cussed about that for the rest of the night.”

As he wrote the obituary, Boehm said he couldn’t resist adding that his dad’s apartment was full of historical weapons and a selection of harmonicas that he kept on hand so his dogs could howl along and entertain the neighbors at all hours.

He also wanted to thank the people of Clarendon for looking in on his father and putting up with his antics.

“I’d have to say if I want anything to come from all of this, it’s for people everywhere to support the mental health of people in little rural towns,” Boehm said.

“They go there to retire, then when they’re old, their kids scatter and they end up alone. A lot of people slip through the cracks.”

“There are people all over the country like my dad,” he said.

“We need to look after them.”

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Growing Pains

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hqIPndi by The_Magic_Lava_Lamp The Tozier-Kaspbrak household was unsettlingly quiet when Beaver decided to pull himself away from his studying. He’d been noticing some sort of funny feeling ----‘Henry might know a better word for it.’---- pinching at his guts for the last month or so. He mostly kept that ‘funny feeling’ to himself. As he crossed the hallway to the stairs, he wondered what version of himself he’d take up today. Not that his problem was that serious or anything but he’d definitely keep the identity crisis to himself, no sense in worrying his family when Richie and Eddie already had so much going on. Words: 5732, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Dreamcatcher - Stephen King, IT - Stephen King Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Categories: M/M Characters: Joe "Beaver" Clarendon, Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Eddie Kaspbrak, Richie Tozier, Douglas "Duddits" Cavell, Henry Devlin, Pete Moore Relationships: Joe "Beaver" Clarendon/Gary "Jonesy" Jones, Eddie Kaspbrak/Richie Tozier read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/hqIPndi

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❤️ALTERS LIST & INFO LINKS❤️

All names will (eventually) have links to the information about said alter. This is just a small list of what we have that will be expanded on as we get their info done.

SECONDARY HOSTS

Valentino - Hazbin Hotel

Trina - AU Velvette From Hazbin Hotel

Bogart - AU Travis From Hazbin Hotel

CatNap - Poppy Playtime

Firkle Smith - South Park

Mike Munroe - Until Dawn

Reno - Final Fantasy VII

Joe "Beaver" Clarendon - Stephen King's Dreamcatcher

GATEKEEPERS

Aldric - AU Alastor from Hazbin Hotel

Maurice "Frenchie" Thierault - The Nun/The Conjuring Universe

CARETAKERS

Dom - AU Valentino From Hazbin Hotel

Adam Stanheight-Faulkner - Saw

LITTLES

Princess Bunny - Little!Valentino From Hazbin Hotel

ANIMAL ALTERS

Mothra - Monsterverse

Whiskers - DC: League Of Super Pets

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Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Stephen King Novel

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DREAMBOYS + timelapse 🏔🌲👽☝️💫 

[iamhowlingmad]

Everyone still talking ‘bout Eddie x Richie but have you read/seen Dreamcatcher...?

Coz’ Beaver is both of them combined into one...

I mean...

(and this man is freakin’ eating peanut butter out of jar with his finger! omg)

[paranormalpeepee]

team “i i’m into stephen king characters with dark hair, glasses and smart mouths”

[beverlymxarsh]

Dreamcatcher: Jonesy x Beaver

Author note: I’ve noticed that there isn’t much fan fiction or art or really anything for this wonderful book (by Stephen King) and movie. I really adore Jonesy and Beaver and their bond together so I made this. I still have to read the book so I hope I got the majority of the characters right!! By the way, you guys should really check out the movie!! It was tremendous!!!

Word count: 561

Warnings: It’s just fluff, there will be minor cursing because of Beavs.

———————

‘I feel so bad, I got a worried mind.

I’m so lonesome all the time.’

Young Joe Clarendon, or better known as Beaver, sat down on a rock, fiddling with a yo-yo of his. He sang under his breath as he twirled up the string so he could mess with the yo-yo once more. The sound of water rushing through the hard rocks that had seemed to grow from the ground passes his ears. Birds chirped, it wasn’t so early but early enough. He looked up and sighed.

‘They’re suppose to be here already, fuck me Freddy.’ Beaver thought. He took off his horn rimmed glasses for a moment to rub the bridge of his nose. He heard something crunch behind him. He turned around, not being able to see.he squinted.

“Henry? Pete? Duddits?” Beav asked. He looked down, seeing the grey color of large rocks and the color of moss green. He moved his hands around, slightly panicked. The crunches were getting louder and so was his heart beat.

He suddenly felt something hard and somewhat fragile under his finger tips. He made a slight smile of relief before putting his glasses back on. He then looked up to see a young red headed boy staring down at him with a grin. “Hey Beav.” He said happily. “Havin trouble there?” He asked, taking a seat next to his best friend.

Beaver scoffed and continued to mess with his yo-yo. “You had me scared there for a minute you dickweed.” He mumbled with the roll of his eyes. His friend who everyone called Jonesy, widened his eyes and the corners of his mouth perked up into a smile. “So I scared ya! Well what about that, I can’t wait to tell Henry.” He laughed.

Beaver felt a warm feeling rushing on his pale cheeks. “I swear to God Jonesy! If you tell anyone then you’re gonna get it!!” He threatened, grabbing his blue yo-yo. Jonesy gave a smug look.

“Get what? A pinch?” He joked. Beaver gritted his teeth and moved his knees close to his chest. “You’re so annoying.” He mumbled.

After Jonesy had calmed down his laughter, he reached out for Beav’s yo-yo. “Let me see that.” He said. Beaver jumped by the slight touch of Jonesy’s finger tips. He quickly moved away from him. “No! You’re probably gonna break it.” He said. Jonesy frowned. “Oh come on Beavs, we’ve been friends for how long? I ain’t gonna break your yo-yo.” He said, holding out his hand.

Beaver was hesitant before handing him his yo-yo. Jonesy smiled widely as he examined it. “Do you know how to do any tricks on it yet?” He asked. Beaver frowned. “Nah, not really, you?” He asked. Jonesy shook his head. He messed with the yo-yo making it work from time to time but mostly having to roll it up. Beaver bit down on his lower lip. He couldn’t help but notice how sweet Jonesy had looked.

With the spread of freckles on his face and his dorky smile. Beaver felt warmth spread on his cheeks once more. He curled up his knees tighter and hugged them. “You alright Beav?” Jonesy asked. Beavs glanced at him and nodded,catching a glimpse of his eyes and feeling his heart oddly beat out of control.

‘Since I left my baby behind on Blue Bayou.’

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I meant to post this here. Lmaoo

I've noticed that you love Stephen King's Dreamcatcher, and wondered what Melanie Martinez song would fit them?

I think Beaver is cute as well 🥺👉👈

Thank you so much this ask! I really LOVE talking about Dreamcatcher and I love music asks!! Unfortunately, I honestly don’t know any songs by Melanie Martinez. I so badly want to answer this for you because this ask made me so happy but I don’t know her music well enough.  If anybody out there can answer this for them PLEASE reply!!! 

ALSO I love Beaver soooooo much!!!

[cannithebear]

My two alien killing boyfriends. And yes, they smoke weed.

[heartbetween]

@maskeraide​​ said:  ❛ of course i’m right. i’m me. ❜

❝ Wait a minute... Run that by me again? ‘Cause it almost sounded like you said that you’re right. ❞

     A quirky grin spreads across his face as he reaches for his drink, knocking it back in one fellow swoop. Lips smack in satisfaction as the echo of the glass hitting the table echoes in his ears. 

❝ Maybe you’ve had one too many this time. ❞

[grownups-are-the-real-monsters]

Ok so, teenage Beaver Clarendon is 100% Boner from ‘Growing Pains’

- Richard Stabone, Known by his nickname ‘Boner’ (Which is just one the perfect reasons for this post) was a reoccurring character on the sitcom ‘Growing Pains’. He appears from season 1 to season 4. He played the amusing and incredibly loveable best friend to Mike Seaver. 

- Joe Clarendon, known by his nickname ‘Beaver’, is a main character from Stephen King’s 2001 novel; Dreamcatcher. Beaver is the fun-loving friend in his group who shoulders the responsibility of being their happiness. 

- Boner was always himself and didn’t care if people thought he was weird. He was a true friend to Mike (even when Mike didn’t deserve it at all). And he was never afraid to be emotional or affectionate with his friends. Always willing to play side-kick or the ‘fool’, if it helps his friends. 

- Beaver is the heart of his friend group, loveable and confidently weird. Always wanting to make his friends laugh and to be there for them when they need it. He also never has a problem playing the side-kick or the ‘fool’, if it helps his friends. 

I think this interaction alone from Boner is the BEST way to show how similar they are, this is him responding to Jason Seaver about his name: 

Jason: “Hi Boner.”

Boner: “It’s Richard here.” 

Jason: “You changed your name too?” 

Boner: “No. it’s always been Richard. I just don’t use it cause it’s a dumb sounding name.”

Jason: “Good thinking, Boner” 

Beaver & Boner are literally the same character, down to their nicknames.