{"id":7232,"date":"2009-04-16T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=7232"},"modified":"2009-04-16T09:30:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T16:30:52","slug":"subversive-historian-041609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/04\/16\/subversive-historian-041609\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 04\/16\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest041609\/2009_04_16_sh.mp3\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest041609\/2009_04_16_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.drooker.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right src=\"\/home\/graphics\/Censorship.jpg\" alt=\"Eric Drooker\" \/><\/a><strong> \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day on April 16th, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. composed his masterful \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail.\u201d The civil rights leader had been imprisoned following his anti-segregation \u201cBirmingham Campaign,\u201d in Alabam that breached a court injunction disallowing such demonstrations in the city. Because King\u2019s campaign practiced civil disobedience and came after a recent election that displaced the notorious Eugene \u201cBull\u201d Connor, a group of eight white clergymen wrote a critical statement titled \u201cA Call for Unity.\u201d King&#8217;s \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail,\u201d refuted their claims of the Civil Rights Movement\u2019s supposed extremism in defending its use of direct action, and willingness to break unjust laws. <\/p>\n<p>With an eloquence informed by the spirit of justice, King concluded his response to the white clergymen by writing, \u201cLet us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away and the deep fog of misunderstanding will be lifted from our fear drenched communities.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><em>For Uprising, this is your truth professa&#8217; saying it&#8217;s no mystery why they conceal our people&#8217;s history!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail\u201d Back in the day on April 16th, 1963, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. composed his masterful \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail.\u201d The civil rights leader had been imprisoned following his anti-segregation \u201cBirmingham Campaign,\u201d in Alabam that breached a court injunction disallowing such demonstrations in the city. Because [&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-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","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=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}