{"id":4466,"date":"1974-06-30T19:07:56","date_gmt":"1974-06-30T19:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/?p=4466"},"modified":"2014-09-29T17:25:08","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:25:08","slug":"the-view-from-peoria-its-not-playing-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/1974\/06\/30\/the-view-from-peoria-its-not-playing-well\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From Peoria: It&#8217;s Not Playing Well"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Washington Post<\/em>&#8216;s Haynes Johnson composed this invaluable, many-sided portrait of Peoria just as the Nixon Administration was collapsing under the weight of the Watergate scandal. Johnson tried to capture the many reactions of Peoria to Watergate, surveying &#8220;the middle managers,&#8221; &#8220;the editor,&#8221; &#8220;the feminist,&#8221; &#8220;the bishop,&#8221; &#8220;the black,&#8221; and &#8220;the businessman.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John Gwynn, president of the Peoria and Illinois NAACP, summarized how much \u2014 and how little \u2014 Peoria had changed for blacks from the early-1950s to 1974. He spoke to the disenchantment, within the black community, that followed the revelations of Watergate: &#8220;You see, even though they&#8217;ve been denied opportunities all their lives, blacks still had more confidence in the federal government in bringing about justice&#8230;.[The Watergate scandal is] a shock, and it&#8217;s leaving our country wide open. If things don&#8217;t change, the attitude is, &#8216;Well, nothing&#8217;s going to change and I&#8217;ll free myself\u00a0<em>my way<\/em>,\u00a0<em>any\u00a0<\/em>way I have to.'&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post&#8216;s Haynes Johnson composed this invaluable, many-sided portrait of Peoria just as the Nixon Administration was collapsing under the weight of the Watergate scandal. Johnson tried to capture the many reactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[403,15,244,9,401,24,17,10],"tags":[218,333,188,332,228,331,328,329,330],"class_list":["post-4466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-ball-of-confusion","category-1970s","category-movement-radicalizes-and-splinters","category-peoria-an-introduction","category-portraits-of-the-city","category-segregation-desegregation","category-themes","category-chronological","tag-caterpillar","tag-catholicism","tag-civil-rights-movement-in-peoria","tag-feminism","tag-john-gwynn","tag-peoria-journal-star","tag-richard-nixon","tag-watergate","tag-will-it-play-in-peoria"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4466"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4466\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.becomingrichardpryor.com\/pryors-peoria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}