{"id":56092,"date":"2016-10-23T21:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_religious_leaders_mark_the_centennial_of_a_south_carolina_lynching\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T21:00:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T21:00:18","slug":"rns_religious_leaders_mark_the_centennial_of_a_south_carolina_lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56092","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Religious leaders mark the centennial of a South Carolina lynching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders are joining a pilgrimage to rural South Carolina to mark the centennial of the lynching of a successful black farmer, hoping to draw attention to the history of killings of African-Americans and begin healing of racial divisions.<\/p>\n<p>Black faith leaders and social justice advocates are commemorating the lynching of Anthony Crawford, a man who owned 427 acres in Abbeville, S.C., when he was killed on Oct. 21, 1916.<\/p>\n<p>He had been jailed after a dispute with a white store owner over the price of cottonseed. He was released but was abducted by a large mob of white men and lynched, his body riddled with bullets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2016\/10\/21\/religious-leaders-mark-centennial-of-s-c-lynching\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders are joining a pilgrimage to rural South Carolina to mark the centennial of the lynching of a successful black farmer, hoping to draw attention to the history of killings of African-Americans and begin healing of racial divisions. Black<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56092\">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":[48,39,50,54,209,186,168,114,120,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-carolina","category-americau-s-a","category-church-history","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56092","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=56092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}