{"id":3870,"date":"2008-10-27T09:44:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T16:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=3870"},"modified":"2008-10-28T09:50:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T16:50:46","slug":"subversive-historian-102708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2008\/10\/27\/subversive-historian-102708\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 10\/27\/08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> Listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest_10_27_08\/2008_10_27_sh.mp3\"> today&#8217;s Subversive Historian <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>The National Negro Labor Council  by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-seven years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, the National Negro Labor Council was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. On October 27th, 1951, delegates from across the country approved a program for the newly formed organization that set out to promote civil rights within the labor movement. Labor leader William Hood delivered a speech at the founding convention titled, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Uncle Tom is Dead,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and Paul Robeson sang and spoke as well. Delegates approved a program for the NNLC that called for the end of discrimination in the workplace, the construction of 100,000 new jobs for African-Americans, and making the Fair Employment Practices Committee clauses a part of union contract negotiations. Detractors of the organization, which unfortunately included the AFL and the CIO, tried to discredit the NNLC as a communist-front, and its leaders were eventually called before the House on Un-American Activities. <\/p>\n<p>After five years, the NNLC folded making it one of the most short-lived but important civil rights groups, and for that, it should never be forgotten by history. <\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to today&#8217;s Subversive Historian The National Negro Labor Council by Subversive Historian Gabriel San Roman Fifty-seven years ago on this day in people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s history, the National Negro Labor Council was founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. On October 27th, 1951, delegates from across the country approved a program for the newly formed organization that set out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}