{"id":4292,"date":"1947-05-03T21:33:37","date_gmt":"1947-05-03T21:33:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:33:54","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T21:33:54","slug":"strange-case-of-paul-robeson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1947\/05\/03\/strange-case-of-paul-robeson\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange Case of Paul Robeson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a different black perspective on Paul Robeson&#8217;s incident in Peoria, The Pittsburgh Courier slammed Robeson&#8217;s outspoken behavior and supported Peoria City Council&#8217;s ban on his performance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Robeson virtually asked for just such a reaction by going about the country interrupting his program to lecture on political objects,&#8221; stated the paper.<\/p>\n<p>The article continued on to conclude that &#8220;negros have enough difficulties to face in America without going around the country creating them.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Providing a different black perspective on Paul Robeson&#8217;s incident in Peoria, The Pittsburgh Courier slammed Robeson&#8217;s outspoken behavior and supported Peoria City Council&#8217;s ban on his performance. &#8220;Mr. Robeson virtually asked for just [&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":[157,24],"tags":[162,188,173,186,146],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robeson-blackballed-in-peoria","category-segregation-desegregation","tag-anti-communism","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-cold-war","tag-discrimination","tag-paul-robeson"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","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=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4300,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}