{"id":1276,"date":"1957-11-05T15:23:16","date_gmt":"1957-11-05T15:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2018-10-08T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T15:44:26","slug":"representative-adam-clayton-powell-gives-talk-titled-where-do-we-go-from-little-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1957\/11\/05\/representative-adam-clayton-powell-gives-talk-titled-where-do-we-go-from-little-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"Representative Adam Clayton Powell gives talk titled \u201cWhere Do We Go From Little Rock\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, 1957<\/p>\n<p>Representative Adam Clayton Powell gives talk titled \u201cWhere Do We Go From Little Rock\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>On Tuesday November 5th, Representative Adam Clayton Powell of New York lectured at Smith. His lecture called on the US government to take \u201cintelligent action\u201d towards integration, as the world was watching. He said every racial incident existed on the global stage, and would be scrutinized out of its importance to \u201ca world fraternity of colored people which transcends all national boundaries.\u201d He also spoke of Western Civilizations lessening control in international affairs, the rise of Communism, and his upcoming plans for Congress.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Powell Discusses Little Rock Issue (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1957.11.05-Powell-Discusses-Little-Rock-Issue-1-e1538430422865.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\/1957.11.05-Powell-Discusses-Little-Rock-Issue-4-e1538430431135.jpg\"><b><i>4<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 8, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 5, 1957 Representative Adam Clayton Powell gives talk titled \u201cWhere Do We Go From [&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":[6,21],"class_list":["post-1276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1950s","tag-segregation","tag-21","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276","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=1276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1276\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}