{"id":8025,"date":"2009-05-20T09:42:15","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2009-05-20T09:42:15","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T16:42:15","slug":"subversive-historian-052009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/20\/subversive-historian-052009\/","title":{"rendered":"Subversive Historian &#8211; 05\/20\/09"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_sh.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052009\/2009_05_20_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> Freedom Riders Attacked <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Back in the day on May 20th, 1961, civil rights activists known as \u201cfreedom riders\u201d were attacked by a white mob upon arriving in Birmingham, Alabama. Reviving the Congress of Racial Equality\u2019s 1947 \u201cjourney of reconciliation,\u201d the \u201cfreedom rides\u201d were conceived in 1961 with the newly elected President John F. Kennedy in office. Leaving on bus from Washington D.C. on May 4th, black and white riders planned to arrive in New Orleans on May 17th challenging segregation all along the way but were halted by two instances of mob violence. The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee took up the rides as they headed for Montgomery, Alabama. By that time, Attorney General Robert Kennedy pressured the state\u2019s governor to protect the riders, however, when the civil rights activists arrived in the city they were attacked as the guarantee of safety cynically gave way to another violent white mob. <\/p>\n<p>Though the Freedom Riders never made it to New Orleans by bus, their courageous example shines as activists who were down to \u2018ride for the cause.\u2019<\/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 Freedom Riders Attacked Back in the day on May 20th, 1961, civil rights activists known as \u201cfreedom riders\u201d were attacked by a white mob upon arriving in Birmingham, Alabama. Reviving the Congress of Racial Equality\u2019s 1947 \u201cjourney of reconciliation,\u201d the \u201cfreedom rides\u201d were conceived in 1961 with the newly elected President [&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-8025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subversive-historian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025","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=8025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}