{"id":1389,"date":"1965-02-23T02:46:33","date_gmt":"1965-02-23T02:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1389"},"modified":"2018-10-12T02:49:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T02:49:14","slug":"opinions-on-malcolm-x-rational-leader-or-apostle-of-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1965\/02\/23\/opinions-on-malcolm-x-rational-leader-or-apostle-of-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinions on Malcolm X: \u201crational leader\u201d or \u201capostle of hate\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 23-25, 1965<\/p>\n<p>Opinions on Malcolm X: \u201crational leader\u201d or \u201capostle of hate\u201d?<\/p>\n<p><i>In the wake of Malcom X\u2019s assassination, the Sophian published an editorial on February 23rd lauding his role as a leader who brought national attention to the unjust treatment of his people. In a strongly-worded denial of this position, the Sophian published a reader\u2019s letter to the editor on February 25th accusing Malcolm X of hatemongering and comparing him to Adolf Hitler.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1965.02.23-Opinion-Page-Death-Of-Leader-Preview-Of-Violence.jpg\"><b><i>(Opinion Page) Death Of Leader: Preview Of Violence?<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1965.02.25-Opinion-Page-Reader-Censures-View-Of-Malcolm-X-Leader.jpg\"><b><i>(Opinion Page) Reader Censures View Of Malcolm X, &#8216;Leader&#8217;<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 11, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 23-25, 1965 Opinions on Malcolm X: \u201crational leader\u201d or \u201capostle of hate\u201d? In the [&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":[40,41],"class_list":["post-1389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-40","tag-malcolm-x","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389","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=1389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}