{"id":1442,"date":"1966-05-05T04:02:03","date_gmt":"1966-05-05T04:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1442"},"modified":"2018-10-31T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-31T17:44:28","slug":"more-recognition-of-black-voters-in-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1966\/05\/05\/more-recognition-of-black-voters-in-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"More recognition of black voters in Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 1966<\/p>\n<p>More recognition of black voters in Alabama<\/p>\n<p><i>An Amherst senior who spent six weeks in Alabama doing political investigations described the changes in the political climate in the Southern state. He affirmed that, after the registration crisis and act of 1965 and the doubled number of black votes, the black voting block was being given more attention by white citizens and politicians alike.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1966.05.05-Marshall-Bloom-Amherst-_66-Describes-Negroes-In-South-Southern-Courier-Reports-In-Depth-Civil-Rights-News-3.jpg\"><b><i>Marshall Bloom, Amherst \u201966 Describes Negroes In South: \u2018Southern Courier\u2019 Reports \u201cIn Depth\u2019 Civil Rights News<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 31, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 5, 1966 More recognition of black voters in Alabama An Amherst senior who spent [&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":[45,37],"class_list":["post-1442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-45","tag-civil-rights","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442","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=1442"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}