{"id":2710,"date":"1957-04-09T18:20:22","date_gmt":"1957-04-09T18:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2012-07-19T16:25:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T16:25:53","slug":"right-to-vote-their-problem-leaders-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1957\/04\/09\/right-to-vote-their-problem-leaders-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Right To Vote Their Problem, Leaders Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the second installment of &#8220;The Negro in Peoria,&#8221; Bill Conver of the <em>Peoria Journal Star <\/em>tackled black involvement in Peoria politics.<\/p>\n<p>Conver suggested that blacks had made more progress, in terms of political representation, on the federal rather than the local level.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Sephus, president of the Peoria chapter of the NAACP and a recent City Council candidate, explained that &#8220;a spirit of lethargy&#8221; in the black community helped explain black underrepresentation in Peoria city politics. Only one quarter of eligible black Peorians had voted in the primary for City Council, Sephus said.<\/p>\n<p>The answer to this lethargy, Conver adduced, was &#8220;political education&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second installment of &#8220;The Negro in Peoria,&#8221; Bill Conver of the Peoria Journal Star tackled black involvement in Peoria politics. Conver suggested that blacks had made more progress, in terms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,9,24],"tags":[167,164,124],"class_list":["post-2710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-segregation-in-the-late-50s","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-the-negro-in-peoria-series","tag-bill-conver","tag-segregation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2781,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions\/2781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}