I, a grad of Quaker highschool, with a Quaker grandparent, and sometime attendeer of Q meeting for worship, was gifted a baseball hat with the Quaker Oatmeal logo on it by my Quaker roommate.
Was one of my fav hats. Don't have it anymore.
But yeah, a bit appropriative
![Excerpt from Citizen Sherman
Should the ever-delicate Ellen come South to join him as they planned, early in 1861, Ellen's Northern white servants would all quit, "and then she will have to wait on herself or buy a nigger. What will you think of that?" he goaded his antislavery activist stepbrother, Thomas Ewing, Jr. "Niggers wont work unless they are owned, and white servants are not to be found, [and] everybody owns their own servants."2 At another level the prospect of personally participating in slavery was unthinkable to him. He was not looking forward to the concrete resolution of Ellen's servant problem, whichever way it fell.
Sherman's new Louisiana career forced him to live a double life, building a new institution in the South, work- ing with the Southern leadership cadre and training their sons, while suppressing, in tandem with his hosts, dis- cussion of the basic issue of secession, which if it came to pass would make impossible his position among them. Even if proslavery, he was not a Southern planter, nor was he expected to become one as a condition of employ- ment. As he wrote to Thomas Ewing in June 1860, "Not a man has said one word about John, or anything at which I could take exception," but this delicate avoidance could not go on forever.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreifb5sntrmeehkvexokmkfj43kbujxwq2onejgfypis6iggetp3lj4)
![Under Johnstone's supervision, Thomas completed his law school senior dissertation, a thesis on bar exams, and received honors. [71] He graduated from Yale with his Juris Doctor in 1974.72] After graduation, he sought to enter private practice as a corporate lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia. [73] Because prospective law firms assumed he was accepted because of affirmative action, he was disappointed with his experience at Yale. [74] Thomas thought the law firms "asked pointed questions, unsubtly suggesting that they doubted I was as smart as my grades indicated" [75] In his 2007 memoir, he wrote: "I peeled a fifteen-cent sticker off a package of cigars and stuck it on the frame of my law degree to remind myself of the mistake I'd made by going to Yale. I never did change my mind about its value."[76] Hill, Jones, and Farrington, the Savannah law firm where Thomas had interned the previous summer, offered him a job upon
graduation, but he declined. [77][78]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreifksc26lua5kjfaecydpa3fq7gkd3qhshej7i4hzz753s4cawnjiy)
![Mississippi River designs
See also: Port Eads, Louisiana
The Mississippi in the 100-mile-plus stretch between the port of New Orleans, Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico frequently suffered from silting up of its outlets, stranding ships or making parts of the river unnavigable for a period of time. Eads solved the problem with a wooden jetty system that narrowed the main outlet of the river, causing the river to speed up and cut its channel deeper, allowing year-round navigation. Eads offered to build the jetties first, and charge the government later. 12] If he was successful, and the jetties caused the river to cut a channel 30 feet deep for 20 years, the government agreed to pay him $8 million. The jetty system was installed in 1876 and the channel was cleared in February 1877.[13]
Journalist Joseph Pulitzer, who had known Eads for five years, invested $20,000 in this project. [14) In 1879 the Eads design of jettys at the mouth of the Mississippi River proved to be successful. [15] A flood in 1890 brought calls for a similar system for the entire Mississippi Valley. A jetty system would prevent the floods by deepening the main channel. However, there were concerns about the ability of water moving through a jetty system to cut out the rock and clay on the river bottom. [16] The development of navigable channels at the mouth of the Mississippi River made Eads famous.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreicfnl34ehm6vdubmffozpakfhdpkntlvfeayuyirkp6ijq4jdkyke)
![In the fall of 1956, Ruth Bader Ginsburg enrolled at Harvard Law School, where she was one of only 9 women in a class of about 500 men. [23][24] The dean of Harvard Law, Erwin Griswold, reportedly invited all the female law students to dinner at his family home and asked the female law students, including Ginsburg, "Why are you at Harvard Law School, taking the place of a man?"lal[16][25][26] When her husband took a job in New York City, that same dean denied Ginsburg's request to complete her third year towards a Harvard law degree at Columbia Law School, [27] so Ginsburg transferred to Columbia and became the first woman to be on two major law reviews: the Harvard Law Review and Columbia Law Review. In 1959, she earned her law degree at Columbia and tied for first in her class. [15][28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreif3rszselzvw3m3gxd4275rbruu4d26ssh54hjpamqpdi3au6wbue)
![The company states that its current "Quaker man" logo "does not represent an actual person. His image is that of a man dressed in Quaker garb, including a Quaker hat, chosen because the Quaker faith projected the values of honesty, integrity, purity and strength". [32]
The company has never had any ties with the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). When the company was being built up, Quaker businessmen were known for their honesty (truth is often considered a Quaker testimony). The Quaker man was the first registered trademark for breakfast cereal in the United States; the character was registered on September 4, 1877.[33]
Members of the Religious Society of Friends have occasionally expressed frustration at being confused with the Quaker Oats representation. [34][35] Friends have twice protested the Quaker name being used for advertising campaigns seen as promoting violence. In 1990, some Quakers started a letter-writing campaign after a Quaker Oats advertisement depicted Popeye as a Quaker who used violence against aliens, sharks, and Bluto. [36] Later in that decade, more letters were sparked by Power Rangers toys included in Cap'n Crunch cereal](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreicwvnkbuedkj2kwmffvgwjhbvnjkfl4mtjzkyln27g3cpfkbamiv4)
!["When lawmakers point to educators and universities - K-12 and all - and blame them for not teaching this stuff, but [fix] it in a narrow way that's just meant to enforce their own ideology while closing their eyes to every abuse of civics that's happening in our society and government from the people who ought to know better, that's when I have a problem," Jani said.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5ofjru6xowuavtpl2gh5wqha/bafkreigyjvs2rn7szh37qhe5piwmdo5j6zmf6dxq3gnmyjkdg27n6b6nfa)
