{"id":1332,"date":"1961-03-11T02:02:52","date_gmt":"1961-03-11T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2018-10-28T15:27:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T15:27:40","slug":"qa-held-with-southern-students-about-sit-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1961\/03\/11\/qa-held-with-southern-students-about-sit-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A Held with Southern Students about Sit-Ins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 1961<\/p>\n<p>Q&amp;A Held with Southern Students about Sit-Ins<\/p>\n<p><i>On Saturday, March 11th, an informal discussion was held in the Chapel Lounge between Smithies and student-participants in the Southern Sit-Ins. The event was sponsored by the NAACP and Christian Association. The Southerners were white students Rebecca Owens and Alice Hilswick of Randolph-Macon College, and black student Barbara Thomas from Virginia Theological Seminary. The young women participated in the initial November sit-ins in Lynchburg, Virginia, were arrested, and were sentenced to 30 days in jail. They discussed everything from the initial interest meeting to the sit-in itself, their experiences in court and jail, and the repercussions of their participation at their respective colleges. The Sophian later published an article on the event on March 14th.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Students Describe Their Participation In Southern Sit-In (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1961.03.14-Students-Describe-Their-Participation-In-Southern-Sit-In-1_Mrs.-Lakshmi-N.-Menon-1.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\/1961.03.14-Students-Describe-Their-Participation-In-Southern-Sit-In-3.jpg\"><b><i>3<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 28, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 1961 Q&amp;A Held with Southern Students about Sit-Ins On Saturday, March 11th, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[31,47],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-31","tag-student-protests","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","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=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}