What were Selma Jews thinking 50 years ago?

Amherst student Marshall Bloom surveyed Selma Jews in 1965 for his American Studies honors thesis. This is what he found: click here.

 

Black-brown unity for Chuy

In Selma Congresswoman Maxine Waters urges the mostly African-American crowd of nearly 300 to form coalitions with the Latino community to elect Chuy Garcia mayor of Chicago. She spoke during a public conversation Friday night, which was part of the Selma Jubilee to commemorate the Bloody Sunday attempt to cross the Pettus Bridge 50 years ago. "We need to go into Chicago and we need to defeat Rahm Emanuel,"she said, to applause.

Is it a penguin? a praying mantis? a vest?

 

I read this before I went to bed and dreamed that the same image was replicated everywhere--because it was a common configuration of metal shaped into  a hook (upside down). Sort of. And really, it is. I would never have figured out what it was supposed to represent. 

 

Here it is again, with signage:

 

and here:

 

On display at Sewanee: University of the South thru March 11. At least until then, men shouldn't have trouble finding it.

More info: click here.