{"id":3951,"date":"1945-05-16T00:02:34","date_gmt":"1945-05-16T00:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2012-08-07T02:51:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T02:51:29","slug":"core-correspondance-letter-to-dick-trotter-from-george-houser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1945\/05\/16\/core-correspondance-letter-to-dick-trotter-from-george-houser\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter from Dick Trotter to George Houser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peoria&#8217;s independent chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality was already active when national CORE President George Houser contacted Peoria CORE president Dick Trotter in 1945.<\/p>\n<p>According to Trotter the group&#8217;s first project took on racial discrimination in eating establishments in Peoria.\u00a0&#8220;We have visited several places,&#8221; he stated, &#8220;and have been using direct action on one of the largest cafeterias here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trotter explained that group&#8217;s efforts were gaining the public&#8217;s support but that their sit-ins weren&#8217;t so successful: at one local restaurant, the protesters had failed to disturb a busy night for the eatery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoria&#8217;s independent chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality was already active when national CORE President George Houser contacted Peoria CORE president Dick Trotter in 1945. According to Trotter the group&#8217;s first project [&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":[315,24,1],"tags":[293,295,186,296,294,297],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-congress-of-racial-equality-1945-1946","category-segregation-desegregation","category-uncategorized","tag-congress-on-racial-equality","tag-dick-trotter","tag-discrimination","tag-george-houser","tag-peoria-core","tag-restaurant-sit-in"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951","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=3951"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4212,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3951\/revisions\/4212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}