{"id":1535,"date":"1968-04-11T03:04:27","date_gmt":"1968-04-11T03:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=1535"},"modified":"2018-10-14T03:06:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T03:06:08","slug":"black-umass-student-speaks-on-civil-rights-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1968\/04\/11\/black-umass-student-speaks-on-civil-rights-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Black UMass student speaks on civil rights issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 1968<\/p>\n<p>Black UMass student speaks on civil rights issues<\/p>\n<p><i>(Date is for when it was reported in the Sophian)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Sophian ran an article on Mike Thelwell, a black graduate student in the UMass creative writing program, after he criticized William Styron\u2019s novel Confessions of Nat Turner at a forum in Graham Hall. In the article, he shared his views on the civil rights struggle, noting a need for back nationalism and a justification for black violence, although he himself participated in a non-violent manner. His focus was an international one and he talked a bit about his native country, Jamaica.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1968.04.11-_Thelwell-Attacks-Styron-_Stereotype_-Favors-Negro-Autonomy-Nonviolence_.jpg\"><b><i>Thelwell Attacks Styron \u2018Stereotype\u2019, Favors Negro Autonomy, Non-Violence<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 13, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 1968 Black UMass student speaks on civil rights issues (Date is for when [&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":[56,37],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1960s","tag-56","tag-civil-rights","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","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=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}