{"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. 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