{"id":48733,"date":"2015-03-07T23:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_memories_of_selma_and_bloody_sunday_they_came_with_nightsticks\/"},"modified":"2015-03-07T23:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T23:00:20","slug":"la_times_memories_of_selma_and_bloody_sunday_they_came_with_nightsticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48733","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Memories of Selma and &#39;Bloody Sunday&#39;: &#39;They came with nightsticks&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They became iconic images of the civil rights movement: A middle-aged black woman tear-gassed and beaten and slumped unconscious on the side of the road. A white Alabama state trooper, billy club in hand, stands above her. In another photo, a young man cradles her body in his arms.<\/p>\n<p>Amelia Boynton Robinson, the woman in those photos, had helped galvanize hundreds of activists to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 \u201d\u201d part of a march from Selma to Montgomery to demand their civil rights. Helmeted law enforcement officers pummeled the peaceful demonstrators on what became known as \u201cBloody Sunday.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey came with horses,\u201d\u009d Boynton Robinson recalled. \u201cThey came with nightsticks.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/la-na-selma-activist-20150305-story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They became iconic images of the civil rights movement: A middle-aged black woman tear-gassed and beaten and slumped unconscious on the side of the road. A white Alabama state trooper, billy club in hand, stands above her. In another photo,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48733\">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":[39,50,209,168,133,120,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-americau-s-a","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733","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=48733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}