{"id":1270,"date":"1957-10-21T14:48:11","date_gmt":"1957-10-21T14:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2018-10-08T14:50:20","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T14:50:20","slug":"labor-secretary-of-the-naacp-visits-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1957\/10\/21\/labor-secretary-of-the-naacp-visits-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor Secretary of the NAACP visits Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 1957<\/p>\n<p>Labor Secretary of the NAACP visits Smith<\/p>\n<p><i>On Monday, October 21st Herbert Hill, labor secretary of the NAACP is received in the Browsing room as a lecturer. His talk explains the NAACP\u2019s focus on \u201cthe elimination of the separate but equal rights status of the Negroes,\u201d through a discussion of key civil rights cases. His talk touches on 1896\u2019s Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1949\u2019s Sweatt vs. Texas, and the then recent ruling of the Supreme Court in the Brown vs. Board of Education case of 1954.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Hill Lectures On Purpose Of NAACP (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1957.10.24-Hill-Lectures-On-Purpose-Of-NAACP-1-e1538426447507.jpg\"><b><i>1<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, <\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1957.10.24-Hill-Lectures-On-Purpose-Of-NAACP-6-e1538426459724.jpg\"><b><i>6<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 8, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 21, 1957 Labor Secretary of the NAACP visits Smith On Monday, October 21st Herbert [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21,19],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1950s","tag-21","tag-naacp","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}