{"id":3370,"date":"1963-06-22T19:02:15","date_gmt":"1963-06-22T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3370"},"modified":"2014-07-02T23:15:47","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T23:15:47","slug":"gwynn-attacks-mayor-day-statement-says-there-is-racial-tension-in-peoria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1963\/06\/22\/gwynn-attacks-mayor-day-statement-says-there-is-racial-tension-in-peoria\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwynn Says There IS Racial Tension in Peoria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We know we have racial tension and discriminatory practices in almost every phase of life in Peoria,&#8221; John Gwynn, the president of Peoria&#8217;s NAACP, stated one day after Mayor Day denied that there was any racial tension in Peoria. Gwynn called upon the Mayor to &#8220;sit down and go over our racial problems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also pointed to the segregation of Peoria&#8217;s police \u2014 black and white police officers did not ride together in two-man patrol cars \u2014 as an aspect of discrimination practiced by Peoria&#8217;s city government.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The mayor should take a good look at the number of Negroes employed in City Hall,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we&#8217;re constantly asking the mayor for action on open occupancy in private housing, which has been tabled so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We know we have racial tension and discriminatory practices in almost every phase of life in Peoria,&#8221; John Gwynn, the president of Peoria&#8217;s NAACP, stated one day after Mayor Day denied that there [&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":[397,14,154,9,24],"tags":[188,187,189,228,184,176,183],"class_list":["post-3370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-the-civil-rights-movement-winds-up","category-1963-1969","category-the-civil-rights-movement-winds-up","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-employment","tag-housing","tag-john-gwynn","tag-mayor-robert-g-day","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people-naacp","tag-racism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370","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=3370"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6097,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3370\/revisions\/6097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}