{"id":36740,"date":"2013-01-13T16:32:27","date_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bcnn_revisiting_1963_-_a_momentous_year_for_the_u-s-_and_the_world_-_50_y\/"},"modified":"2013-01-13T16:32:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-13T16:32:27","slug":"bcnn_revisiting_1963_-_a_momentous_year_for_the_u-s-_and_the_world_-_50_y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36740","title":{"rendered":"(BCNN) Revisiting 1963 &#8212; a Momentous Year for the U.S. and the World &#8212; 50 Years Later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new year was just beginning &#8212; an extraordinary year, in which so much would change.<\/p>\n<p>Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the podium to give his inaugural address as governor of Alabama. His words framed a fiery rejoinder to a civil rights movement gathering strength.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny,&#8221; he thundered, &#8220;and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fifty years later, the words still have the power to shock. In college classes like &#8220;The Sixties in History and Memory,&#8221; today&#8217;s students recoil.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackchristiannews.com\/news\/2013\/01\/revisiting-1963----a-momentous-year-for-the-us-and-the-world----50-years-later.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new year was just beginning &#8212; an extraordinary year, in which so much would change. Half a century ago, on Jan. 14, 1963, George Wallace took the podium to give his inaugural address as governor of Alabama. His words<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=36740\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,209,133,120,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}