{"id":1369,"date":"1964-02-10T02:20:57","date_gmt":"1964-02-10T02:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2018-10-12T02:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:22:14","slug":"eric-weinberger-speaks-on-civil-rights-unemployment-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1964\/02\/10\/eric-weinberger-speaks-on-civil-rights-unemployment-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Weinberger speaks on civil rights unemployment project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 10, 1964<\/p>\n<p>Eric Weinberger speaks on civil rights unemployment project<\/p>\n<p><i>Eric Weinberger, member of the Committee for Nonviolent Action and founder of the Totebags for Freedom co-op, was invited to campus to talk about his project. In Brownsville, Tennessee, Weinberger started the co-op with the economic support of black leadership in the area with the aim of \u201cprovid[ing] some income for families displaced by the Negro voter registration drive\u201d. At the time of his discourse in the Smith Chapel Lounge, 75 black families were running the co-op, which had become a self-sustaining success.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1964.02.06-Weinberger-to-Explore-Negro-Unemployment.jpg\"><b><i>Weinberger to Explore Negro Unemployment<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Weinberger Lectures on Negro Co-ops (<\/i><\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1964.02.11-Weinberger-Lectures-on-Negro-Co-ops.jpg\"><b><i>1<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i>, missing second page)<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 11, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 10, 1964 Eric Weinberger speaks on civil rights unemployment project Eric Weinberger, member of [&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":[39],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-39","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","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=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1370,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}