{"id":4166,"date":"1974-05-12T00:54:52","date_gmt":"1974-05-12T00:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2012-08-07T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T04:18:46","slug":"civil-rights-movement-where-has-peoria-been","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1974\/05\/12\/civil-rights-movement-where-has-peoria-been\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Rights Movement: Where Has Peoria Been?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Peoria Journal Star <\/em>reporter\u00a0Mimi McLintock probed the progress made by Peoria&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement over twenty years, starting with\u00a0<em>Brown v. Board of Education<\/em> in 1954 and ending with the article&#8217;s publication in 1974.<\/p>\n<p>She highlighted 1963 as a watershed year for civil rights in Peoria primarily because of the numerous, visible demonstrations by the NAACP against discrimination in employment, education, and housing.<\/p>\n<p>McLintock noted too the strong presence of youth in all protests:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the movement built, the NAACP (oftentimes in the person of teenagers of the group&#8217;s youth branch) picketed the Peoria Board of Realtors and several area realtors for housing discrimination, Brown&#8217;s (then Brown&#8217;s Home and Auto), and an impromtu demonstration in front of a barbershop in 1964 resulted in arrests, court cases and marches.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peoria Journal Star reporter\u00a0Mimi McLintock probed the progress made by Peoria&#8217;s Civil Rights Movement over twenty years, starting with\u00a0Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and ending with the article&#8217;s publication in 1974. [&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":[244,24],"tags":[125,188,186,182,187,228,176],"class_list":["post-4166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movement-radicalizes-and-splinters","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-1960s-civil-rights","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-discrimination","tag-education","tag-employment","tag-john-gwynn","tag-national-association-for-the-advancement-of-colored-people-naacp"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166","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=4166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4220,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4166\/revisions\/4220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}