{"id":1373,"date":"1964-02-27T02:24:42","date_gmt":"1964-02-27T02:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2018-10-12T02:26:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:26:21","slug":"student-interviews-musician-josh-white-discuss-racial-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1964\/02\/27\/student-interviews-musician-josh-white-discuss-racial-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Student interviews musician Josh White, discuss racial equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, 1964<\/p>\n<p>Student interviews musician Josh White, discuss racial equality<\/p>\n<p><i>In his interview with a Smith student, Josh White talked about his experiences with discrimination in his South Carolina hometown and his efforts to fight back through song. He emphasized the importance of education, and when the student asked, \u201cIf education is so important to the Negro, why is it that generation after generation seemingly lack ambition,\u201d White replied that \u201cIt\u2019s a lack of possibility not ambition\u201d, although he affirmed that things were changing for the better.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1964.02.27-Josh-White-Speaks-Out-Racial-Equality.jpg\"><b><i>Josh White Speaks Out: Racial Equality<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 11, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 27, 1964 Student interviews musician Josh White, discuss racial equality In his interview with [&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-1373","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\/1373","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=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1374,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}